Hobart and William Smith Speaker Series: Rivers in the Sky: A Climatology of Atmospheric Rivers over the Northeast U.S."

Join Wood Library for the return of our Hobart and William Smith Seminar series via Zoom. Associate Professor Nick Metz will discuss Atmospheric Rivers in the Northeastern United States. Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow streams of water vapor in the atmosphere that are associated with large-scale mid-latitude regions of disturbed weather.  These have been studied extensively along the west-coast of the United States and are responsible for much of their wintertime precipitation and many types of high-impact weather events in this region.  This study is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of these atmospheric rivers in the northeast.  This presentation will reveal the ubiquity of these atmospheric rivers in the northeast and their substantial relationship to precipitation, snowfall, weather warnings, and streamflow. Registration required for Zoom Code