“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that ...

There’s lots of water in Antarctica, but most of it is frozen. You’d be forgiven, then, for thinking that rivers aren’t really a thing on the continent – however, you’d be mistaken.

Using cutting-edge regional climate models (RCMs) at a high spatial resolution of just one kilometer, the researchers explored how atmospheric rivers interact with Antarctica's rugged terrain to ...