A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

ER Siirila-Woodburn, AM Rhoades… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is decreasing seasonal snowpacks globally, with potentially
catastrophic consequences on water resources, given the long-held reliance on snowpack …

Climate change contributions to future atmospheric river flood damages in the western United States

TW Corringham, J McCarthy, T Shulgina… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) generate most of the economic losses associated with flooding in
the western United States and are projected to increase in intensity with climate change …

Improved forecasts of atmospheric rivers through systematic reconnaissance, better modelling, and insights on conversion of rain to flooding

DA Lavers, FM Ralph, DS Richardson… - … Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers lie behind many extreme precipitation and flood episodes in the mid-
latitudes. Better forecasts of atmospheric rivers and their impacts could help with …

Probabilistic predictions from deterministic atmospheric river forecasts with deep learning

WE Chapman, L Delle Monache… - Monthly Weather …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Deep-learning (DL) postprocessing methods are examined to obtain reliable and accurate
probabilistic forecasts from single-member numerical weather predictions of integrated …

Deep learning for bias correction of satellite retrievals of orographic precipitation

H Chen, L Sun, R Cifelli, P Xie - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of various composite satellite precipitation products is severely limited by
their individual passive microwave (PMW)-based retrieval uncertainties because the PMW …

[HTML][HTML] Drone-based meteorological observations up to the tropopause–a concept study

KB Bärfuss, H Schmithüsen… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - amt.copernicus.org
The main in situ database for numerical weather prediction currently relies on radiosonde
and airliner observations, with large systematic data gaps: horizontally in certain countries …

Observations of an extreme atmospheric river storm with a diverse sensor network

BJ Hatchett, Q Cao, PB Dawson, CJ Ellis… - Earth and Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Observational networks enhance real‐time situational awareness for emergency and water
resource management during extreme weather events. We present examples of how a …

An Assessment of Dropsonde Sampling Strategies for Atmospheric River Reconnaissance

M Zheng, R Torn, L Delle Monache… - Monthly Weather …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
During a 6-day intensive observing period in January 2021, Atmospheric River
Reconnaissance (AR Recon) aircraft sampled a series of atmospheric rivers (ARs) over the …

Data gaps within atmospheric rivers over the northeastern Pacific

M Zheng, L Delle Monache, X Wu… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Conventional observations of atmospheric rivers (ARs) over the northeastern Pacific Ocean
are sparse. Satellite radiances are affected by the presence of clouds and heavy …

Improved forecast skill through the assimilation of dropsonde observations from the Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program

M Zheng, L Delle Monache… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Landfalling atmospheric rivers (ARs) over the western US are responsible for∼ 30%–50%
of the annual precipitation, and their accurate forecasts are essential for aiding water …