Stig Östlund

torsdag, februari 05, 2015

NASA Aircraft, Spacecraft Aid Atmospheric River Study

NASA is part of CalWater 2015, a massive research effort to study atmospheric rivers this month. Atmospheric rivers are flows of tropical moisture across the Pacific Ocean to the West Coast, where the moisture falls as rain or snow. One type of atmospheric river is called the Pineapple Express because it originates near Hawaii. Storms driven by atmospheric rivers produce about 40 percent of California's annual water supply, but also most of its major floods

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