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Understanding and predicting atmospheric rivers

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Here & Now's Anthony Brooks speaks with research meteorologist F. Martin Ralph about a weather phenomenon that scientists only identified in the past decade: atmospheric rivers of water vapor that can bring beneficial rain or devastating flooding. Ralph has been formulating a weather alert system for them.

This segment aired on September 12, 2022.

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