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 …

Geomorphic and sedimentary effects of modern climate change: current and anticipated future conditions in the western United States

AE East, JB Sankey - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroclimatic changes associated with global warming over the past 50 years have been
documented widely, but physical landscape responses are poorly understood thus far …

Precipitation regime change in Western North America: the role of atmospheric rivers

A Gershunov, T Shulgina, RES Clemesha, K Guirguis… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Daily precipitation in California has been projected to become less frequent even as
precipitation extremes intensify, leading to uncertainty in the overall response to climate …

Precipitation in a warming world: Assessing projected hydro-climate changes in California and other Mediterranean climate regions

SD Polade, A Gershunov, DR Cayan, MD Dettinger… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract In most Mediterranean climate (MedClim) regions around the world, global climate
models (GCMs) consistently project drier futures. In California, however, projections of …

Atmospheric river tracking method intercomparison project (ARTMIP): Project goals and experimental design

CA Shields, JJ Rutz, LY Leung… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
The Atmospheric River Tracking Method Intercomparison Project (ARTMIP) is an
international collaborative effort to understand and quantify the uncertainties in atmospheric …

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 …

The atmospheric river tracking method intercomparison project (ARTMIP): Quantifying uncertainties in atmospheric river climatology

JJ Rutz, CA Shields, JM Lora, AE Payne… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are now widely known for their association with high‐impact
weather events and long‐term water supply in many regions. Researchers within the …

A shift from drought to extreme rainfall drives a stable landslide to catastrophic failure

AL Handwerger, MH Huang, EJ Fielding, AM Booth… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The addition of water on or below the earth's surface generates changes in stress that can
trigger both stable and unstable sliding of landslides and faults. While these sliding …

Tracking atmospheric rivers globally: Spatial distributions and temporal evolution of life cycle characteristics

B Guan, DE Waliser - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Tracking Atmospheric Rivers Globally as Elongated Targets (tARget) algorithm
is further developed to Version 3, adding the capability to track atmospheric river (AR) life …

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 …