Around the globe, hotter temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier ...

A CU Boulder-led study measured water vapor in Greenland’s air, collecting data crucial for improving climate models and forecasting Arctic changes.

Climate change is causing more intense atmospheric rivers, which can deliver intense snowfall—enough to slow Greenland's ice mass loss, a new study finds. The work appears in Geophysical Research ...

A hotter atmosphere sucks up more water vapor from bodies of water and vegetation and soil. Over land, this atmospheric demand and loss of surface moisture leads to longer and more intense ...

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Their research ...

The thinner the boundary layer, the more important stomatal control of water loss becomes, because water vapor is more likely to move out of the leaf (greater vapor pressure gradient). Jarvis ...

These gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide ... But greenhouse gases counteract that heat loss, trapping heat, and reflecting it back towards the Earth. The more greenhouse gases in the ...

The dispersion of water vapor introduces phase errors across the instrument passband and produces excess noise in interferometer group delay, residual errors in cophasing using a different source ...

Prolonged droughts, wildfires and water shortages. Torrential downpours that overwhelm dams and cause catastrophic flooding.

Atmospheric rivers are bands of water vapor that transport moisture and heat from warm oceans to cooler high latitudes. Until recently, they were thought only to exacerbate Arctic ice loss.