Responses and impacts of atmospheric rivers to climate change

AE Payne, ME Demory, LR Leung, AM Ramos… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are characterized by intense moisture transport, which, on landfall,
produce precipitation which can be both beneficial and destructive. ARs in California, for …

Major mechanisms of atmospheric moisture transport and their role in extreme precipitation events

L Gimeno, F Dominguez, R Nieto… - Annual Review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
We review the major conceptual models of atmospheric moisture transport, which describe
the link between evaporation from the ocean and precipitation over the continents. We begin …

[HTML][HTML] A scale to characterize the strength and impacts of atmospheric rivers

FM Ralph, JJ Rutz, JM Cordeira… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Scale to Characterize the Strength and Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers in: Bulletin of the
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[HTML][HTML] Climatological characteristics of atmospheric rivers and their inland penetration over the western United States

JJ Rutz, WJ Steenburgh, FM Ralph - Monthly Weather Review, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Narrow corridors of water vapor transport known as atmospheric rivers (ARs) contribute to
extreme precipitation and flooding along the West Coast of the United States, but knowledge …

Atmospheric rivers, floods and the water resources of California

MD Dettinger, FM Ralph, T Das, PJ Neiman, DR Cayan - Water, 2011 - mdpi.com
California's highly variable climate and growing water demands combine to pose both water-
supply and flood-hazard challenges to resource managers. Recently important efforts to …

An anomalous warm-season trans-Pacific atmospheric river linked to the 2021 western North America heatwave

R Mo, H Lin, F Vitart - Communications Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers are long and narrow bands of enhanced water vapour transport
concentrated in the lower troposphere. Many studies have documented the important role of …

Oceanic and terrestrial sources of continental precipitation

L Gimeno, A Stohl, RM Trigo, F Dominguez… - Reviews of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The most important sources of atmospheric moisture at the global scale are herein identified,
both oceanic and terrestrial, and a characterization is made of how continental regions are …

All-season climatology and variability of atmospheric river frequencies over the North Pacific

BD Mundhenk, EA Barnes, ED Maloney - Journal of Climate, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Recent work on atmospheric rivers (ARs) has led to a characterization of these impactful
features as primarily cold-season phenomena. Here, an all-season analysis of AR incidence …

The role of atmospheric rivers in anomalous snow accumulation in East Antarctica

IV Gorodetskaya, M Tsukernik, K Claes… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent, heavy snow accumulation events over Dronning Maud Land (DML), East Antarctica,
contributed significantly to the Antarctic ice sheet surface mass balance (SMB). Here we …

Atmospheric rivers: A mini-review

L Gimeno, R Nieto, M Vázquez… - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow regions responsible for the majority of the poleward
water vapor transport across the midlatitudes. They are characterized by high water vapor …