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Recreating Atmospheric Rivers

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Whiteboard illustration of atmospheric river formation in the northern hemisphere.

Visualization of atmospheric river formation. Imagine this as a top-down view on the northern hemisphere. The ice-filled jar in the center acts like the Arctic, and cold, blue-dyed winter storms move southward from there. Meanwhile, warm moist air from the tropics and subtropics (shown in red) gets curled up along the edge of the storm.

Close-up on the visualization. Note the thin dark swirl that curls up from the red region up along the blue "storm".

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