{"id":516961,"date":"2024-08-20T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T14:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=516961"},"modified":"2024-08-20T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T14:10:59","slug":"water-flows-through-the-atmosphere-and-makes-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/water-flows-through-the-atmosphere-and-makes-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Water flows through the atmosphere and makes rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_516962\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-516962 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-rios-atmosfericos-2024-04-1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-rios-atmosfericos-2024-04-1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-rios-atmosfericos-2024-04-1140-250x131.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-rios-atmosfericos-2024-04-1140-700x367.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-rios-atmosfericos-2024-04-1140-120x63.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">NOAA<\/span>Atmospheric rivers, now detectable by satellite, flow from the tropics to the poles<span class=\"media-credits\">NOAA<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Evaporation over tropical oceans forms invisible rivers that flow to the earth\u2019s poles through the atmosphere. As they travel along their path, they are responsible for much of the rain that falls around the planet. They are the source of up to 30% of annual precipitation in Europe and the US, and up to 40% of rainfall in East Asia during the rainy season. Chinese electrical engineer Weiming Ma of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the US state of Washington has now developed a method to track them, as he and colleagues described in the <em>Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres<\/em>. The group showed that satellite records of space temperature patterns can be used to create a three-dimensional map of winds that, when combined with humidity data from NASA, indicates the global layout of atmospheric rivers. The tool can be used to assess how the greater volumes of water that evaporate as a result of global warming affect the intensity of rainfall worldwide\u2014more than its frequency\u2014and contribute to ice loss at the planet\u2019s poles (<em>Science Alert<\/em>, February 26).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"System monitors atmospheric rivers, responsible for much of the rain that falls on Earth","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[217],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-516961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-climate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516986,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516961\/revisions\/516986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516961"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=516961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}