Skyfall

• Autores: Dana Mackenzie
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2910, 2013, págs. 38-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • MacKenzie discusses the catastrophic results of atmospheric rivers, which are vast, unbroken streams of water-laden air that can snake thousands of kilometers through the sky. Only recently identified and named, they are huge not just in geographical extent. "In terms of the water they dump as precipitation, atmospheric rivers are every bit as big and bad as hurricanes," says Michael Dettinger of the United States Geological Survey in La Jolla CA. Unlike hurricanes, they do not generate massive publicity, evacuations and early-warning efforts. Dettinger and others say this must change.