atmospheric rivers might not be all bad news." As the Arctic has warmed almost four times faster than the global average since 1980, Greenland has been melting. Warmer temperatures from climate ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As sea ice melts and ocean patterns shift, pollutants from Siberian rivers are ...

A new study has shed unprecedented light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to travel across the Arctic Ocean. The findings raise fresh ...

"I get shivers just thinking about it," Christina McCluskey, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Science ... understand the pace of Arctic melt." Clouds reflect sunlight ...

Global warming has pushed the Arctic into a new state unprecedented in human history, with thinning and retreating sea ice, skyrocketing air and sea temperatures, melting permafrost, and glaciers ...

collected in southeastern Greenland to study how atmospheric rivers impact the Greenland Ice Sheet. The visible divide between ice on the left and snow firn on the right reveals hot summer melt ...

Single, intense atmospheric rivers can deliver enough snow to offset some ice mass loss and delay the onset of summer melt, the team found. The results are published in Geophysical Research Letters.

“The Arctic shows no signs of returning to the reliably frozen state it was in just a few decades ago," said Jeremy Mathis, who leads the Arctic program for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Others have investigated the response to sea ice loss with modelling setups that artificially impose heat to melt ... atmospheric and oceanic teleconnections that can propagate far from the Arctic.

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor. They take water from oceans and flow through the sky dumping rain in prodigious amounts. They have increased in the area ...