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An atmospheric river (AR) is a narrow corridor or filament of concentrated moisture in the atmosphere. Other names for this phenomenon are tropical plume, tropical connection, moisture plume, water vapor surge, and cloud band. [1] [2] Composite satellite photos of an atmospheric river connecting Asia to North America in October 2017
Kodori river plume. A river plume is a freshened water mass that is formed in the sea as a result of mixing of river discharge and saline seawater. [1] River plumes are formed in coastal sea areas at many regions in the World. River plumes generally occupy wide-but-shallow sea surface layers bounded by sharp density gradients.
A river plume embedded into a ROFI reproduce a continuous process of transformation of freshwater discharge. Initially, river discharge enters the shelf sea from a river mouth and forms a sub-mesoscale (with spatial extents ~1-10 km) or mesoscale (with spatial extents ~10-100 km) water mass referred to as a river plume.
A major storm packing a plume of moisture that will evolve into an atmospheric river will slide southward along the California coast. The firehose effect will direct a period of torrential rain ...
Atmospheric river storms are long plumes of water vapor that can pour over from the Pacific Ocean into California. They carry so much water, they're said to be like a river in the sky.
A Level 1 out of 5 flash flood threat is posted from Thursday into Friday along the majority of the California coast from San Francisco to just north of Los Angeles. Interior parts of Northern ...
Santa Fe Dam is a flood-control dam on the San Gabriel River located in Irwindale in Los Angeles County, California, United States. For most of the year, the 92-foot (28 m)-high dam and its reservoir lie empty, but can hold more than 45,000 acre-feet (56,000,000 m 3 ) of water during major storms.
[13] [14] The Sierra Nevada snowpack feeds Central Valley river systems and is a critical source of water in the state's long dry season when little if any precipitation falls. Up to 30 percent of California's water supply is from snowpack, and the majority of California's hydroelectricity is also generated from the Sierra Nevada snowpack. [15]