Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patterns

October 15, 2024 Jonas Wamstad

Atmospheric rivers occur all over the world, as this animation of global satellite data from February 2017 shows. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

The Conversation: A new study published in Science Advances, University of California, Santa Barbara, shows that atmospheric rivers have shifted about 6 to 10 degrees toward the two poles over the past four decades.