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 …

Advances in understanding large‐scale responses of the water cycle to climate change

RP Allan, M Barlow, MP Byrne… - Annals of the New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, thermodynamics explains an increase in atmospheric water vapor with warming of
around 7%/° C near to the surface. In contrast, global precipitation and evaporation are …

[HTML][HTML] TempestExtremes v2. 1: A community framework for feature detection, tracking, and analysis in large datasets

PA Ullrich, CM Zarzycki, EE McClenny… - Geoscientific Model …, 2021 - gmd.copernicus.org
TempestExtremes (TE) is a multifaceted framework for feature detection, tracking, and
scientific analysis of regional or global Earth system datasets on either rectilinear or …

Radiative–convective equilibrium model intercomparison project

AA Wing, KA Reed, M Satoh, B Stevens… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
RCEMIP, an intercomparison of multiple types of models configured in radiative–convective
equilibrium (RCE), is proposed. RCE is an idealization of the climate system in which there …

Spontaneous aggregation of convective storms

C Muller, D Yang, G Craig, T Cronin… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Idealized simulations of the tropical atmosphere have predicted that clouds can
spontaneously clump together in space, despite perfectly homogeneous settings. This …

The spatial extent of rainfall events and its relation to precipitation scaling

K Lochbihler, G Lenderink… - Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Observations show that subdaily precipitation extremes increase with dew point temperature
at a rate exceeding the Clausius‐Clapeyron (CC) relation. The understanding of this so …

Future precipitation changes over China under 1.5 C and 2.0 C global warming targets by using CORDEX regional climate models

H Li, H Chen, H Wang, E Yu - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
This study aims to characterize future changes in precipitation extremes over China based
on regional climate models (RCMs) participating in the Coordinated Regional Climate …

Observed modulation of the tropical radiation budget by deep convective organization and lower‐tropospheric stability

S Bony, A Semie, RJ Kramer, B Soden… - AGU …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study analyzes the observed monthly deseasonalized and detrended variability of the
tropical radiation budget and suggests that variations of the lower‐tropospheric stability and …

Clouds, circulation, and climate sensitivity in a radiative‐convective equilibrium channel model

TW Cronin, AA Wing - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical cloud and circulation changes are large sources of uncertainty in future climate
change. This problem owes partly to the scale separation between large‐scale tropical …

Measuring convective organization

G Biagioli, AM Tompkins - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Organized systems of deep convective clouds are often associated with high-impact weather
and changes in such systems may have implications for climate sensitivity. This has …