The following articles were published about the ACAPEX field campaign.
Media Coverage
- KCRA, CNN Affiliate
“Scientists dissect approaching ‘atmospheric river’”
February 3, 2015
- KPIX, CBS Affiliate
“Team Of Scientists Sailing Into Massive Pacific Storm To Study ‘Atmospheric River’ Effects On California Drought”
February 3, 2015
- Capital Public Radio
“Research of Atmospheric Rivers Key To Understanding California’s Water Supply”
February 3, 2015
- Fox 40
“NOAA Goes Airborne To Study Storm”
February 3, 2015
- 89.3 KPCC
“Rivers of water in the air provide much of California’s rain”
December 11, 2014
Features
- LA Times
“Scientists go high and low for data on drought-fighting ‘sky rivers’”
February 14, 2015
- The Wide World of Sport
“Dusty Atmospheric River Strikes California”
February 10, 2015
- CBS Sacramento
“Flying Into A Storm To Figure Out The Drought”
February 7, 2015
- San Francisco Gate
“Researchers fly into heart of California storm to gather key data”
February 6, 2015
- USA Today
“Scientists to eye sky ‘rivers’ during California storm”
February 5, 2015
- The Sacramento Bee
“Scientists ride the Pineapple Express”
February 5, 2015
- Gizmodo
“We’re Going to Fly Four Planes Straight into the Pineapple Express”
February 4, 2015
- LiveScience
“Sky River to Bust Northern California Drought This Week”
February 4, 2015
- Weather Underground
“Atmospheric River Heads for California as a Massive Field Study Gears Up”
February 3, 2015
- The San Diego Union-Tribune
“Scientists fly into storms for research”
February 3, 2015
- The Sacramento Bee
“Atmospheric river poised to soak Sacramento”
February 3, 2015
- The Washington Post
“Sky me a river: Scientists say flood threat linked to atmospheric rivers”
January 26, 2015
- Reporting Climate Science
“Field Research To Get Data On California Drought”*
January 20, 2015
- Nature
“CalWater 2015 targets atmospheric rivers off California”
January 20, 2015
- Los Angeles Times
“California drought could end with storms known as atmospheric rivers”
January 18, 2015
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California – San Diego
“Refilling California’s Reservoirs—The Roles of Aerosols and Atmospheric Rivers”
December 16, 2014
- Greenwire
“Scientist probes weather risk that’s like ‘fire hose aimed at the coast’”
April 30, 2014
*Link not available