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Atmospheric rivers, a term first coined in the mid-1990s, carry huge volumes of water from low to higher latitudes. The impacts of these ‘rivers in the sky’ on the coastal regions of the US and Europe have been studied extensively, but little is known about how they affect land far from the oceans, such as in the Middle East. Amin Dezfuli , a hydrometeorologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, explains what we currently know and why it is important we learn more.
