Increases in future AR count and size: Overview of the ARTMIP Tier 2 CMIP5/6 experiment

TA O'Brien, MF Wehner, AE Payne… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Atmospheric River (AR) Tracking Method Intercomparison Project (ARTMIP) is
a community effort to systematically assess how the uncertainties from AR detectors …

An overview of ARTMIP's Tier 2 Reanalysis Intercomparison: Uncertainty in the detection of atmospheric rivers and their associated precipitation

ABM Collow, CA Shields, B Guan, S Kim… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric rivers, or long but narrow regions of enhanced water vapor transport, are an
important component of the hydrologic cycle as they are responsible for much of the …

[HTML][HTML] TempestExtremes v2. 1: A community framework for feature detection, tracking, and analysis in large datasets

PA Ullrich, CM Zarzycki, EE McClenny… - Geoscientific Model …, 2021 - gmd.copernicus.org
TempestExtremes (TE) is a multifaceted framework for feature detection, tracking, and
scientific analysis of regional or global Earth system datasets on either rectilinear or …

A review of recent and emerging machine learning applications for climate variability and weather phenomena

MJ Molina, TA O'Brien, G Anderson… - … Intelligence for the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Climate variability and weather phenomena can cause extremes and pose significant risk to
society and ecosystems, making continued advances in our physical understanding of such …

Future changes in extreme precipitation over the San Francisco Bay Area: Dependence on atmospheric river and extratropical cyclone events

CM Patricola, MF Wehner, E Bercos-Hickey… - Weather and Climate …, 2022 - Elsevier
Extreme precipitation poses a major challenge for local governments, including the City and
County of San Francisco, California, as flooding can damage and destroy infrastructure and …

Atmospheric river sequences as indicators of hydrologic hazard in historical reanalysis and GFDL SPEAR future climate projections

C Bowers, KA Serafin, KC Tseng, JW Baker - Earth's Future, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
When multiple atmospheric rivers (ARs) occur in rapid succession, the combined effect on
the hydrologic system can lead to more flooding and damage than would be expected from …

Modulation of atmospheric rivers by the Arctic stratospheric polar vortex

SH Lee, LM Polvani, B Guan - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Variability in atmospheric river (AR) frequency can drive hydrometeorological extremes with
broad societal impacts. Mitigating the impacts of increased or decreased AR frequency …

The role of atmospheric rivers in the distribution of heavy precipitation events over North America

SM Vallejo-Bernal, F Wolf, N Boers… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2023 - hess.copernicus.org
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are filaments of extensive water vapor transport in the lower
troposphere that play a crucial role in the distribution of freshwater but can also cause …

Recreating the California New Year's flood event of 1997 in a regionally refined Earth system model

AM Rhoades, CM Zarzycki… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 1997 New Year's flood event was the most costly in California's history. This
compound extreme event was driven by a category 5 atmospheric river that led to …

Subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) prediction of atmospheric rivers in the Northern Winter

W Zhang, B Xiang, KC Tseng, NC Johnson… - npj Climate and …, 2024 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are characterized by intense lower tropospheric plumes of
moisture transport that are frequently responsible for midlatitude wind and precipitation …