a: atmospheric river ~
b: Mississippi River in the sky

What:

"To get a sense of how much moisture such air currents transport, consider that a strong atmospheric river can carry an amount of atmospheric water vapor about equal to 7.5 to 15 times the average flow of liquid water at the mouth of the Mississippi River, NOAA scientists have found."


Useful?
Writer: Andrew Freedman
LCC:
Where:
Date: Mar 9 2016 6:18 PM


Send a comment/complaint about this entry to Metamia.com:

9592

Please provide any other details you think
will be useful to us in the text area below.