Responses and impacts of atmospheric rivers to climate change

AE Payne, ME Demory, LR Leung, AM Ramos… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are characterized by intense moisture transport, which, on landfall,
produce precipitation which can be both beneficial and destructive. ARs in California, for …

Recent advances and new frontiers in riverine and coastal flood modeling

K Jafarzadegan, H Moradkhani… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, the scientific community has made significant efforts to simulate
flooding conditions using a variety of complex physically based models. Despite all …

Five decades of observed daily precipitation reveal longer and more variable drought events across much of the western United States

F Zhang, JA Biederman… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple lines of evidence suggest climate change will result in increased precipitation
variability and consequently more frequent extreme events. These hydroclimatic changes …

[HTML][HTML] A scale to characterize the strength and impacts of atmospheric rivers

FM Ralph, JJ Rutz, JM Cordeira… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Scale to Characterize the Strength and Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers in: Bulletin of the
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Detection of atmospheric rivers: Evaluation and application of an algorithm for global studies

B Guan, DE Waliser - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow, elongated, synoptic jets of water vapor that play
important roles in the global water cycle and regional weather/hydrology. A technique is …

Precipitation regime change in Western North America: the role of atmospheric rivers

A Gershunov, T Shulgina, RES Clemesha, K Guirguis… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Daily precipitation in California has been projected to become less frequent even as
precipitation extremes intensify, leading to uncertainty in the overall response to climate …

Atmospheric river tracking method intercomparison project (ARTMIP): Project goals and experimental design

CA Shields, JJ Rutz, LY Leung… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
The Atmospheric River Tracking Method Intercomparison Project (ARTMIP) is an
international collaborative effort to understand and quantify the uncertainties in atmospheric …

Extreme winds and precipitation during landfall of atmospheric rivers

D Waliser, B Guan - Nature Geoscience, 2017 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers—long, narrow filaments of large integrated water vapour transport—are
associated with weather and water extremes, such as precipitation extremes and flooding in …

Assessing the climate‐scale variability of atmospheric rivers affecting western North America

A Gershunov, T Shulgina, FM Ralph… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A new method for automatic detection of atmospheric rivers (ARs) is developed and applied
to an atmospheric reanalysis, yielding an extensive catalog of ARs land‐falling along the …

Future precipitation increase from very high resolution ensemble downscaling of extreme atmospheric river storms in California

X Huang, DL Swain, AD Hall - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
Precipitation extremes will likely intensify under climate change. However, much uncertainty
surrounds intensification of high-magnitude events that are often inadequately resolved by …