Recent progress on the sources of continental precipitation as revealed by moisture transport analysis

L Gimeno, M Vázquez, J Eiras-Barca, R Sorí… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The assessment of sources of moisture is key to the understanding of the hydrological cycle
at different time scales, because it enables the establishment of source-sink relationships …

Atmospheric moisture transport versus precipitation across the Tibetan Plateau: A mini-review and current challenges

Y Ma, M Lu, H Chen, M Pan, Y Hong - Atmospheric Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP), being an average of surpassing 4000 m above sea level
and around 2.5× 10 6 km 2, is the highest and largest plateau in the world and also called as …

[HTML][HTML] Recent trends in the frequency and duration of global floods

N Najibi, N Devineni - Earth System Dynamics, 2018 - esd.copernicus.org
Frequency and duration of floods are analyzed using the global flood database of the
Dartmouth Flood Observatory (DFO) to explore evidence of trends during 1985–2015 at …

East Asia atmospheric river catalog: Annual cycle, transition mechanism, and precipitation

M Pan, M Lu - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract An all‐season East Asia Atmospheric River (EA AR) catalog is constructed based
on PanLu2. 0. The annual cycle of EA AR exhibits eight stages, synchronizing with the …

A novel atmospheric river identification algorithm

M Pan, M Lu - Water Resources Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, climatology, variability, hydrological impact, and climatic drivers of
atmospheric rivers (ARs) are widely explored based on various AR identification algorithms …

[HTML][HTML] Moisture source–receptor network of the East Asian summer monsoon land regions and the associated atmospheric steerings

TF Cheng, M Lu - Journal of Climate, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Moisture Source–Receptor Network of the East Asian Summer Monsoon Land Regions and
the Associated Atmospheric Steerings in: Journal of Climate Volume 33 Issue 21 (2020) Jump …

Global Lagrangian tracking of continental precipitation recycling, footprints, and cascades

TF Cheng, M Lu - Journal of Climate, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study addresses how moisture in continental precipitation is recycled globally from a
moisture-tracking perspective. Using a state-of-the-art three-dimensional Lagrangian model …

Spatially coherent clusters of summer precipitation extremes in the Tibetan Plateau: Where is the moisture from?

Y Ma, M Lu, C Bracken, H Chen - Atmospheric Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Atmospheric moisture dynamics for extreme precipitation is poorly understood in the “Asian
water towers”. Using a new spatial clustering approach for extreme events, the Tibetan …

Moisture channels and pre-existing weather systems for East Asian rain belts

TF Cheng, M Lu, L Dai - Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Rain belts in East Asia frequently pose threats to human societies and natural
systems. Advances in a skillful forecast on heavy precipitation require a deeper …

[HTML][HTML] The zonal oscillation and the driving mechanisms of the extreme western North Pacific subtropical high and its impacts on East Asian summer precipitation

TF Cheng, M Lu, L Dai - Journal of Climate, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Zonal Oscillation and the Driving Mechanisms of the Extreme Western North Pacific
Subtropical High and Its Impacts on East Asian Summer Precipitation in: Journal of Climate …