 Maybe you've been hearing more about atmospheric rivers bringing record rainfall to the west coast of mid-latitude regions and wondered, what are these atmospheric events? In her Explorer Series lecture, NCAR scientist Christine Shields discusses atmospheric rivers in a changing climate, how rivers in the sky could change. I'm going to be talking about atmospheric rivers and how they are going to change in a warming world. These are weather features that actually move water from lower latitudes to higher latitudes. So it's like from the Hawaii to the tropical region to the west coast of California. Since I love weather, I've loved weather since I was a little kid. I'd like to be able to give you that excitement of understanding what these weather features are and how important weather is for climate.