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 …

Atmospheric circulation patterns associated with extreme United States floods identified via machine learning

KE Schlef, H Moradkhani, U Lall - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The massive socioeconomic impacts engendered by extreme floods provides a clear
motivation for improved understanding of flood drivers. We use self-organizing maps, a type …

[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 …

Hydroclimate drivers and atmospheric teleconnections of long duration floods: An application to large reservoirs in the Missouri River Basin

N Najibi, N Devineni, M Lu - Advances in water resources, 2017 - Elsevier
A comprehensive framework is developed to assess the flood types, their spatiotemporal
characteristics and causes based on the rainfall statistics, antecedent flow conditions, and …

A vulnerability‐based, bottom‐up assessment of future riverine flood risk using a modified peaks‐over‐threshold approach and a physically based hydrologic model

J Knighton, S Steinschneider… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There is a chronic disconnection among purely probabilistic flood frequency analysis of
flood hazards, flood risks, and hydrological flood mechanisms, which hamper our ability to …

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 …