A Proposed Algorithm for Moisture Fluxes from Atmospheric Rivers

Atmospheric rivers: a mini-review

*Correspondence: Luis Gimeno, EPhyslab, Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Vigo, Campus As Lagoas, 32004 Ourense, Spain e-mail: [email protected] Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow regions responsible for the majority of the poleward water vapor transport across the midlatitudes. They are characterized by high water vapor content and strong low level winds, and form a part of the ...

Determination of the Atmospheric Neutrino Fluxes from Atmospheric Neutrino Data

The precise knowledge of the atmospheric neutrino fluxes is a key ingredient in the interpretation of the results from any atmospheric neutrino experiment. In the standard data analysis, these fluxes are theoretical inputs obtained from sophisticated numerical calculations based on the convolution of the primary cosmic ray spectrum with the expected yield of neutrinos per incident cosmic ray. I...

Tau Neutrino Fluxes from Atmospheric Charm

We present an evaluation of the atmospheric tau neutrino flux in the energy range between 102 and 106 GeV. The main source of tau neutrinos is from charmed particle production and decay. The ντN → τX event rate for a detector with a water equivalent volume of 1 km3 is on the order of 60-100 events per year for Eτ > 100 GeV, reducing to 18 events above 1 TeV. Event rates for atmospheric muon neu...

Lepton fluxes from atmospheric charm revisited

We update predictions for lepton fluxes from the hadroproduction of charm quarks in the scattering of primary cosmic rays with the Earth’s atmosphere. The calculation of charm-pair hadroproduction applies the latest results from perturbative QCD through next-to-next-to-leading order and modern parton distributions, together with estimates on various sources of uncertainties. Our predictions for...

How Do Atmospheric Rivers Form?