A simple expression that describes Atmospheric Rivers is rivers in the sky.
Technically, an Atmospheric River means vast amounts of moisture moving in the atmosphere from the tropics region to the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
When it precipitates, it causes a lot of flooding. The recent successive deluge of rains in the western States of the U.S. is an example of how much precipitation and flooding Atmospheric Rivers cause.
Climate scientists study the intensity of flooding due to Atmospheric Rivers.
For interested upcoming researchers, attributing the causes of vast amounts of water vapor and its concentration in an identified atmospheric space to oceanic thermodynamics and orbital forcing may be exciting.
Attributing climate change to natural variability and man made greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere is a very complex research exercise.
I started this academic exercise several years ago in the course of studying the impact of climate change on water resources.
Two peer reviewed journal papers, one published in the U.S. and the other published in the U.K., have come out of this academic exercise.
Interested researchers who have the resources to continue this academic exercise may find these peer reviewed journal papers, which are linked below, helpful.
Step toward a Deterministic Solution of the Paradoxical Hydrological Stationarity Problem
Validation of predicted meteorological drought in California using analogous orbital geometries
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Messele Zewdie Ejeta
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