Media Coverage

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