Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes

HJ Fowler, G Lenderink, AF Prein, S Westra… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Short-duration (1–3 h) rainfall extremes can cause serious damage to societies
through rapidly developing (flash) flooding and are determined by complex, multifaceted …

Convection‐permitting modeling with regional climate models: Latest developments and next steps

P Lucas‐Picher, D Argüeso, E Brisson… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Approximately 10 years ago, convection‐permitting regional climate models (CPRCMs)
emerged as a promising computationally affordable tool to produce fine resolution (1–4 km) …

The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR): An hourly updating convection-allowing forecast model. Part I: Motivation and system description

DC Dowell, CR Alexander, EP James… - Weather and …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) is a convection-allowing
implementation of the Advanced Research version of the Weather Research and …

Thirty years of regional climate modeling: where are we and where are we going next?

F Giorgi - Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The year 2019 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the development of the first regional climate
model (RCM), and here an overview is provided of the progress in regional modeling …

Confronting the challenge of modeling cloud and precipitation microphysics

H Morrison, M van Lier‐Walqui… - Journal of advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the atmosphere, microphysics refers to the microscale processes that affect cloud and
precipitation particles and is a key linkage among the various components of Earth's …

Precipitation change in the United States

DR Easterling, JR Arnold, T Knutson, KE Kunkel… - 2017 - repository.library.noaa.gov
Historical variations in precipitation, as observed from both instrumental and proxy records,
establish the context around which future projected changes can be interpreted, because it …

Projected increases and shifts in rain-on-snow flood risk over western North America

KN Musselman, F Lehner, K Ikeda, MP Clark… - Nature Climate …, 2018 - nature.com
Destructive and costly flooding can occur when warm storm systems deposit substantial rain
on extensive snowcover,,,,–, as observed in February 2017 with the Oroville Dam crisis in …

The future intensification of hourly precipitation extremes

AF Prein, RM Rasmussen, K Ikeda, C Liu… - Nature climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Extreme precipitation intensities have increased in all regions of the Contiguous United
States (CONUS) and are expected to further increase with warming at scaling rates of about …

The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution part 2: historical and future simulations of precipitation

E Pichelli, E Coppola, S Sobolowski, N Ban, F Giorgi… - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
This paper presents the first multi-model ensemble of 10-year,“convection-permitting”
kilometer-scale regional climate model (RCM) scenario simulations downscaled from …

Elevation-dependent warming in mountain regions of the world

Nature climate change, 2015 - nature.com
There is growing evidence that the rate of warming is amplified with elevation, such that high-
mountain environments experience more rapid changes in temperature than environments …