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 …

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 …

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

AP Williams, ER Cook, JE Smerdon, BI Cook… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Severe and persistent 21st-century drought in southwestern North America (SWNA)
motivates comparisons to medieval megadroughts and questions about the role of …

Landscape genomics to enable conservation actions: the California Conservation Genomics Project

HB Shaffer, E Toffelmier, RB Corbett-Detig… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP) is a unique, critically
important step forward in the use of comprehensive landscape genetic data to modernize …

Future precipitation increase from very high resolution ensemble downscaling of extreme atmospheric river storms in California

X Huang, DL Swain, AD Hall - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
Precipitation extremes will likely intensify under climate change. However, much uncertainty
surrounds intensification of high-magnitude events that are often inadequately resolved by …

The season for large fires in Southern California is projected to lengthen in a changing climate

C Dong, AP Williams, JT Abatzoglou, K Lin… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Southern California is a biodiversity hotspot and home to over 23 million people. Over recent
decades the annual wildfire area in the coastal southern California region has not …

Atmospheric rivers drive flood damages in the western United States

TW Corringham, FM Ralph, A Gershunov… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are extratropical storms that produce extreme precipitation on the
west coasts of the world's major landmasses. In the United States, ARs cause significant …

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 …

Future increases in North American extreme precipitation in CMIP6 downscaled with LOCA

DW Pierce, DR Cayan, DR Feldman… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
A new set of CMIP6 data downscaled using the localized constructed analogs (LOCA)
statistical method has been produced, covering central Mexico through southern Canada at …

Climate change contributions to future atmospheric river flood damages in the western United States

TW Corringham, J McCarthy, T Shulgina… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) generate most of the economic losses associated with flooding in
the western United States and are projected to increase in intensity with climate change …