Satellite remote sensing of precipitation and the terrestrial water cycle in a changing climate

V Levizzani, E Cattani - Remote sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The water cycle is the most essential supporting physical mechanism ensuring the existence
of life on Earth. Its components encompass the atmosphere, land, and oceans. The cycle is …

Meteorological aspects of heavy precipitation in relation to floods–an overview

AJ Breugem, JG Wesseling, K Oostindie… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Floods do have multiple aspects: they are integral phenomena by nature. In this paper we
deal with the meteorological aspects, which need to be adequately understood in order to …

Observed influence of anthropogenic climate change on tropical cyclone heavy rainfall

N Utsumi, H Kim - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
The impact of climate change on tropical cyclones (TCs) is of great concern in the Western
North Pacific (WNP) region. Observations suggest that there have been recent changes in …

A global climatological perspective on the importance of Rossby wave breaking and intense moisture transport for extreme precipitation events

AJ De Vries - Weather and Climate Dynamics Discussions, 2020 - wcd.copernicus.org
Extreme precipitation events (EPEs) cause frequently flooding with dramatic socioeconomic
impacts in many parts of the world. Previous studies considered two synoptic-scale …

A study of AR-, TS-, and MCS-associated precipitation and extreme precipitation in present and warmer climates

M Zhao - Journal of Climate, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Atmospheric rivers (ARs), tropical storms (TSs), and mesoscale convective systems (MCSs)
are important weather phenomena that often threaten society through heavy precipitation …

Tropical cyclone precipitation in the HighResMIP atmosphere-only experiments of the PRIMAVERA Project

W Zhang, G Villarini, E Scoccimarro, M Roberts… - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
This study examines the climatology and structure of rainfall associated with tropical
cyclones (TCs) based on the atmosphere-only Coupled Model Intercomparison Project …

Climatological relationship between warm season atmospheric rivers and heavy rainfall over East Asia

Y Kamae, W Mei, SP Xie - Journal of the Meteorological Society of …, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Eddy transport of atmospheric water vapor from the tropics is important for rainfall and
related natural disasters in the middle latitudes. Atmospheric rivers (ARs), intense moisture …

Global tropical cyclone precipitation scaling with sea surface temperature

AM Stansfield, KA Reed - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the relationship between tropical cyclone (TC) precipitation and sea surface
temperature (SST) is essential for both TC hazard forecasting and projecting how these …

Variations in the intensity and spatial extent of tropical cyclone precipitation

D Touma, S Stevenson, SJ Camargo… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The intensity and spatial extent of tropical cyclone precipitation (TCP) often shapes the risk
posed by landfalling storms. Here we provide a comprehensive climatology of landfalling …

[HTML][HTML] A global perspective of tropical cyclone precipitation in reanalyses

E Jones, AA Wing, R Parfitt - Journal of Climate, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study compares the spread in climatological tropical cyclone (TC) precipitation across
eight different reanalysis datasets: NCEP-CFSR, ERA-20C, ERA-40, ERA5, ERA-Interim …