The term precipitable water is what the depth of all of moisture in the troposphere would be if it were condensed and deposited on the Earth’s surface. It is mathematically determined by integrating ...

Karl Braganza is the Head of the Climate Monitoring Section in the Bureau of Meteorology's Environment and Research Division. Karl Braganza does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...

There are many ways to measure moisture in the atmosphere including relative humidity and dew point. Another way you may not have heard about is called precipitable water and meteorologists use this ...

Imagine wringing out the entire atmosphere like a sponge; how much water would fall? That’s what precipitable water tells us. Precipitable water (often abbreviated as PWAT) is a measure of how much ...

While the Upper Ohio Valley is no stranger to heavy rainfall and flooding, the conditions that have been in place over the past couple of days have supercharged the atmosphere to produce some ...