Linking total precipitable water to precipitation extremes globally

S Kim, A Sharma, C Wasko, R Nathan - Earth's Future, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… will affect extreme precipitation becomes an … extreme events of the future. This study
investigated the relationship between extreme precipitation (EP), atmospheric precipitable water (W)…

Precipitation extremes: Trends and relationships with average precipitation and precipitable water in the contiguous United States

KE Kunkel, TR Karl, MF Squires, X Yin… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
… Coincident statistically significant upward trends of EP and precipitable water (PW) occur
in many regions, especially during the warm season. Increases in PW are likely to be one of …

Dependence of extreme precipitable water events on temperature

S Nayak, T Takemi - Atmósfera, 2019 - scielo.org.mx
water vapor in the atmosphere increases at a rate of 7% per ºC of warming. In this study, we
explored the relationship between extreme precipitable waterextreme precipitable water

Observed climatological relationships of extreme daily precipitation events with precipitable water and vertical velocity in the contiguous United States

KE Kunkel, SE Stevens, LE Stevens… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An analysis of 3,104 stations in the United States shows virtually every station exhibits a
positive correlation between precipitable water (PW) and extreme daily precipitation (EP) with …

Increase in hourly precipitation extremes beyond expectations from temperature changes

G Lenderink, E Van Meijgaard - Nature Geoscience, 2008 - nature.com
… of atmospheric precipitable water scales with the water vapour … Indeed, changes in daily
precipitation extremes in global … Here, we analyse a 99-year record of hourly precipitation

[HTML][HTML] Projected changes in extreme daily precipitation linked to changes in precipitable water and vertical velocity in CMIP6 models

L Gimeno-Sotelo, E Bevacqua… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
… in only small increases in extreme precipitation or even a … to the overall changes in extreme
precipitation. We conclude that the … utility for evaluating precipitation extremes in models and …

[HTML][HTML] Predicted changes in the frequency of extreme precipitable water vapor events

J Roman, R Knuteson, S Ackerman… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
precipitable water vapor (PWV) is a necessary requirement for heavy precipitation and
extreme … This study determined the predicted shift in extreme PWV from a set of CMIP5 global …

Precipitable water and CAPE dependence of rainfall intensities in China

W Dong, Y Lin, JS Wright, Y Xie, X Yin, J Guo - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
… The role of available moisture is evaluated using precipitable water (PW), while that of
convective instability is evaluated using convective available potential energy (CAPE). PW …

Future increases in extreme precipitation exceed observed scaling rates

J Bao, SC Sherwood, LV Alexander… - Nature Climate Change, 2017 - nature.com
… of precipitation extremes in response to warming 12 . Increases of daily and hourly precipitation
extremes … , and comparable to changes in precipitable water 36 . Inconsistencies in the …

Precipitation extremes and water vapor: Relationships in current climate and implications for climate change

JD Neelin, C Martinez-Villalobos… - Current Climate Change …, 2022 - Springer
… While water vapor increases tend to be governed by the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship
to temperature, precipitation extreme changes are more complex and can increase more …