Atmospheric River Recon
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12/16/2025: Atmospheric River Research Flights Go Global; Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
12/08/2025: ECMWF Highlights Scientist who is a Key Partner in Atmospheric River Reconnaissance; European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
11/12/2025: CW3E Hosts the 2025 Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Workshop at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA; UC San Diego/Scripps
10/27/2025: New Forecast-Informed Decision-Making Tool Implemented at Northern California Reservoir; UC San Diego
07/24/2025: AR Recon Program Named First “Anchor Project” by Global Precipitation EXperiment (GPEX); UC San Diego
06/30/2025: CW3E in the Press: Recent Media Coverage From the New York Times, BBC, CNN and More; UC San Diego
03/13/2025: New Report Shows Implementation of Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations at Lake Oroville and New Bullards Bar Can Increase Region’s Resilience to Floods; California Department of Water Resources
02/13/2025: Atmospheric Rivers Explain Atypical El Niño and La Niña Years; UC San Diego
01/13/2025: CW3E at the 2025 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting; UC San Diego/Scripps
12/20/2024: AR Recon WY2025 Operations Update; UC San Diego/Scripps
12/10/2024: Taking Flight: UC San Diego Shaping Future of Atmospheric River Forecasting; UC San Diego/Scripps
11/18/2024: CW3E Members Attend the 2024 Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Workshop at NOAA’s Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, MD; UC San Diego/Scripps
10/22/2024: The Atmospheric Rivers of Water Year 2024: End of Water Year Summary; UC San Diego/Scripps
06/24/2024: 2024 International Atmospheric Rivers Conference Held in San Diego, CA; UC San Diego/Scripps
04/26/2024: AR Recon Program Endorsement by World Meteorological Organization; UC San Diego/Scripps
12/20/2023: Up, up and away … for the sake of science: Weather balloon launches in Yuba County capture storm information; The Appeal Today
11/21/2023: Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Flights Begin; UC San Diego
10/12/2023: Hydro Dams Are Struggling to Handle the World’s Intensifying Weather; WIRED
01/25/2023: AR Recon Milestones – Flight Plans for the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean; Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes
12/06/2022: Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Flight Season Gets an Early Start This Winter; Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
04/13/2022: ECMWF participates in Atmospheric River Reconnaissance; European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
03/01/2022: 53rd WRS wrapping up Atmospheric River missions; 403rd Wing
01/12/2022: Atmospheric River Storm Observations Over Pacific Ocean to Expand this Winter; Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
05/14/2020: Flights Into The Stratosphere Study Changes To Atmospheric Rivers; National Public Radio (NPR)
04/06/2020: Flying high with NOAA over the Pacific; ECMWF Science Blog
03/10/2020: San Diego Researchers Probe Rain System Soaking Area; kpbs
03/09/2020: Local scientists launch weather balloons to study ‘atmospheric river’; Fox 5 San Diego
02/25/2020: Drought or dangerous flooding? Research aims to tame atmospheric river risks — and save California’s rain; Cal Matters
02/24/2020: Flying with NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters; KOIN 6
02/11/2020: There Are Rivers in the Sky Drenching the U.S. Because of Climate Change; Bloomberg
01/31/2020: As California preps for more ‘horizontal hurricanes,’ Air Force gathers intel over Pacific; The Sacramento Bee
01/29/2020: Scripps researchers are flying into storms to study atmospheric rivers; ABC News San Diego
01/27/2020: UCSD scientists will ride research aircraft into huge storms to study ‘atmospheric rivers’; San Diego Union Tribune
01/25/2020: Scientists Taking New Approach to Studying Atmospheric Rivers; NBC San Diego
01/24/2020: Atmospheric rivers aim at Pacific Northwest, with copious coastal rain and feet of mountain snow predicted; The Washington Post
01/23/2020: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Air Force, NOAA to Fly into Atmospheric River Storms Over Pacific Ocean this Winter; UC San Diego/Scripps
01/15/2020: NRL researching rivers in the sky; Defense Visual Information Distribution Service
01/06/2020: CW3E Publication Notice: A Case Study of the Physical Processes Associated with the Atmospheric River Initial Condition Sensitivity from an Adjoint Model; UC San Diego/Scripps
08/01/2019: AR Recon Officially Called for in the National Winter Season Operations Plan; UC San Diego/Scripps
04/19/2019: AR Recon 2019 – Drifting Buoy Project Highlighted in ECMWF Spring 2019 Newsletter ; European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
02/28/2019: CW3E AR Update: 25-27 February Post Event Summary; UC San Diego/Scripps
02/05/2019: CW3E Post Event Summary: 02 February 2019 AR; UC San Diego/Scripps
08/08/2018: CW3E Publication Notice: The Gauging and Modeling of Rivers in the Sky; UC San Diego/Scripps
08/02/2018: CW3E Hosts Student Workshop on AR Forecasting; UC San Diego/Scripps
07/22/2018: Second International Atmospheric Rivers Conference, June 25-28, 2018; UC San Diego/Scripps
02/08/2018: Atmospheric River Reconnaissance – 2018 is Underway; UC San Diego/Scripps
02/02/2018: CW3E Publication Notice: An Inter-comparison Between Reanalysis and Dropsonde Observations of the Total Water Vapor Transport in Individual Atmospheric Rivers; UC San Diego/Scripps
12/15/2017: Hunting Atmospheric Rivers; UC San Diego Scientists Preparing to Capture Data From Critical Source of California’s Water Supply; UC San Diego
09/14/2017: CW3E Publication Notice: Dropsonde Observations of Total Integrated Water Vapor Transport within North Pacific Atmospheric Rivers; UC San Diego/Scripps