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 …

Impacts of extreme temperature and precipitation on crops during the growing season in South Asia

X Fan, D Zhu, X Sun, J Wang, M Wang, S Wang… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
South Asia, one of the most important food producing regions in the world, is facing a
significant threat to food grain production under the influence of extreme high temperatures …

[HTML][HTML] The three-dimensional life cycles of potential vorticity cutoffs: A global and selected regional climatologies in ERA-Interim (1979–2018)

R Portmann, M Sprenger… - Weather and Climate …, 2021 - wcd.copernicus.org
The aim of this study is to explore the nature of potential vorticity (PV) cutoff life cycles. While
climatological frequencies of such near-tropopause cyclonic vortices are well known, their …

Dubai's record precipitation event of 16 April 2024–A diagnosis

KTCL Kam, P Sagero, LL Kebacho, V Ongoma - Atmospheric Research, 2025 - Elsevier
Understanding climate extremes is crucial for improving forecasting accuracy to minimise
the associated loss of lives and property. On 16 April 2024, Dubai, an arid desert region in …

Climate risk assessment for the transboundary region of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers basin

RJ Cornforth, E Saggioro, C Petty, A Verhoef… - …, 2023 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
This document outlines quantitative climate change storylines and their qualitative
environmental and socio-economic impacts for the Euphrates and Tigris rivers basin region …

Spatiotemporal analysis of some extreme rainfall indices over Iraq (1981–2017)

AM Al-Lami, YK Al-Timimi… - … Review Engineering and …, 2021 - srees.sggw.edu.pl
Extreme rainfall is one of the environmental hazards with disastrous effects on the human
environment. Water resources management is very vulnerable to any changes in rainfall …

[HTML][HTML] A Quick Look at the Atmospheric Circulation Leading to Extreme Weather Phenomena on a Continental Scale

FT Couto, S Kartsios, M Lacroix, HN Andrade - Atmosphere, 2024 - mdpi.com
The study delves into the primary large-scale atmospheric features contributing to extreme
weather events across Europe during early September 2023. The period was examined …

Extreme storms in Southwest Asia (Northern Arabian Peninsula) under current and future climates

A Tuel, YW Choi, D AlRukaibi, EAB Eltahir - Climate Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
Precipitation extremes will generally intensify in response to a warming climate. This robust
fingerprint of climate change is of particular concern, resulting in heavy rainfall and …

[PDF][PDF] Synoptic characteristics of torrential rains in southwest and southeast Iraq: A case study

AG Mutar, A Khtan, LE George - Al-Mustansiriyah Journal of Science, 2021 - iasj.net
Iraq is located in the Middle East (29.5-37.22 N, 38.45-48.45 E)”. According to Bailey
classification of moisture index [1] Iraq climate can be classified into three categories:(1) …

Cutoff lows, moisture plumes, and their influence on extreme-precipitation days in central Chile

C Muñoz, DM Schultz - Journal of Applied Meteorology and …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
A study of 500-hPa cutoff lows in central Chile during 1979–2017 was conducted to contrast
cutoff lows associated with the lowest quartile of daily precipitation amounts (LOW25) with …