Precipitation downscaling under climate change: Recent developments to bridge the gap between dynamical models and the end user

D Maraun, F Wetterhall, AM Ireson… - Reviews of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation downscaling improves the coarse resolution and poor representation of
precipitation in global climate models and helps end users to assess the likely hydrological …

Homogenising meteorological variables: Impact on trends and associated climate indices

OE Adeyeri, P Laux, KA Ishola, W Zhou, IA Balogun… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Daily precipitation, maximum and minimum air temperature series are homogenised over
the Lake Chad Basin between 1979 and 2020 using two conceptually different …

Impacts of land-surface heterogeneities and Amazonian deforestation on the wet season onset in southern Amazon

JP Sierra, JC Espinoza, C Junquas, S Wongchuig… - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Continued Amazonian deforestation perturbs the surface turbulent fluxes which are
important for building the conditions for the wet season onset in the southern Amazon. This …

[HTML][HTML] Projections of a wetter Sahel in the twenty-first century from global and regional models

EK Vizy, KH Cook, J Crétat, N Neupane - Journal of climate, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Projections of a Wetter Sahel in the Twenty-First Century from Global and Regional Models in:
Journal of Climate Volume 26 Issue 13 (2013) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation Logo …

Recent changes in the atmospheric circulation patterns during the dry-to-wet transition season in south tropical South America (1979–2020): Impacts on precipitation …

JC Espinoza, PA Arias, V Moron, C Junquas… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
We analyze the characteristics of atmospheric variations over tropical South America using
the pattern recognition framework of weather typing or atmospheric circulation patterns …

Some recent developments in cluster analysis

IT Jolliffe, A Philipp - Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 2010 - Elsevier
Cluster analysis has been used for many years in weather and climate research but most
applications have concentrated on a handful of techniques. However, the subject is vast with …

[PDF][PDF] Meteorological characteristics and potential causes of the 2007 flood in sub‐Saharan Africa

H Paeth, AH Fink, S Pohle, F Keis… - International Journal …, 2011 - researchgate.net
In August and September 2007 media and aid organizations reported on a severe flood in
large parts of sub-Saharan Africa caused by a sequence of extreme rain events. However …

Large-scale environments of successive atmospheric river events leading to compound precipitation extremes in California

MA Fish, JM Done, DL Swain, AM Wilson… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Successive atmospheric river (AR) events—known as AR families—can result in prolonged
and elevated hydrological impacts relative to single ARs due to the lack of recovery time …

Intra‐seasonal rainfall variability in the Amazon basin related to large‐scale circulation patterns: a focus on western Amazon–Andes transition region

L Paccini, JC Espinoza, J Ronchail… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study aims to relate the intra‐seasonal rainfall variability over the Amazon basin to
atmospheric circulation patterns (CPs), with particular attention to extreme rainfall events in …

A global climatology of tropical easterly waves

MA Hollis, RR McCrary, JP Stachnik, C Lewis-Merritt… - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
Tropical easterly waves (TEWs) are westward-propagating off-equatorial waves that are
typically convectively coupled. TEWs make significant contributions to the annual rainfall in …