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Atmospheric rivers

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The Atmospheric Rivers

The atmosphere organizes its horizontal transport of water vapor into very narrow bands that can be you know down average a few hundred kilometers wide and a couple thousand kilometers long. I see it then compared to the flow of the Amazon. That's right if you slice across an atmospheric river, on average about two times the Amazon rivers discharge into the Atlantic. What is it that holds these atmospheric rivers together that makes them these ribbons of water vapor? Great question! If we had a video I'd be waving my hands and describing it visually but it's the winds converging the water vapor horizontally they take the cold front is where it sort of a focus for us.

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