Increases in future AR count and size: Overview of the ARTMIP Tier 2 CMIP5/6 experiment

TA O'Brien, MF Wehner, AE Payne… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Atmospheric River (AR) Tracking Method Intercomparison Project (ARTMIP) is
a community effort to systematically assess how the uncertainties from AR detectors …

An overview of ARTMIP's Tier 2 Reanalysis Intercomparison: Uncertainty in the detection of atmospheric rivers and their associated precipitation

ABM Collow, CA Shields, B Guan, S Kim… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric rivers, or long but narrow regions of enhanced water vapor transport, are an
important component of the hydrologic cycle as they are responsible for much of the …

Consensus and disagreement in atmospheric river detection: ARTMIP global catalogues

JM Lora, CA Shields, JJ Rutz - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) constitute an important mechanism for water vapor transport, but
research on their characteristics and impacts has relied on a diverse assortment of detection …

Counterbalancing influences of aerosols and greenhouse gases on atmospheric rivers

SH Baek, JM Lora - Nature Climate Change, 2021 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are filamentary conduits of intense water vapour transport in the
extratropics, accounting for the majority of poleward moisture transport in the mid-latitudes …

[HTML][HTML] Increased amplitude of atmospheric rivers and associated extreme precipitation in ultra-high-resolution greenhouse warming simulations

AB Nellikkattil, JY Lee, B Guan… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers play an integral role in the global water cycle, but predicting their future
changes remains uncertain due to inter-model and inter-detection-method differences …

Evaluating uncertainty and modes of variability for Antarctic atmospheric rivers

CA Shields, JD Wille… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctic atmospheric rivers (ARs) are driven by their synoptic environments and lead to
profound and varying impacts along the coastlines and over the continent. The definition …

Multiscale nature of atmospheric rivers

C Park, SW Son, B Guan - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study provides evidence for the multiscale nature of atmospheric rivers (ARs) by
differentiating them based on high‐(HF) and low‐frequency (LF) moisture transports. The HF …

Uncertainties in atmospheric river lifecycles by detection algorithms: Climatology and variability

Y Zhou, TA O'Brien, PA Ullrich… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are long and narrow filaments of vapor transport that are
responsible for most poleward moisture transport outside of the tropics. Many AR detection …

Past terrestrial hydroclimate sensitivity controlled by Earth system feedbacks

R Feng, T Bhattacharya, BL Otto-Bliesner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite tectonic conditions and atmospheric CO 2 levels (pCO 2) similar to those of present-
day, geological reconstructions from the mid-Pliocene (3.3-3.0 Ma) document high lake …

Exploratory precipitation metrics: Spatiotemporal characteristics, process-oriented, and phenomena-based

LR Leung, WR Boos, JL Catto, C A. DeMott… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Precipitation sustains life and supports human activities, making its prediction one of the
most societally relevant challenges in weather and climate modeling. Limitations in …