Climate extremes and compound hazards in a warming world

A AghaKouchak, F Chiang, LS Huning… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Climate extremes threaten human health, economic stability, and the well-being of natural
and built environments (eg, 2003 European heat wave). As the world continues to warm …

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 …

More frequent atmospheric rivers slow the seasonal recovery of Arctic sea ice

P Zhang, G Chen, M Ting, L Ruby Leung… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
In recent decades, Arctic sea-ice coverage underwent a drastic decline in winter, when sea
ice is expected to recover following the melting season. It is unclear to what extent …

High resolution model intercomparison project (HighResMIP v1. 0) for CMIP6

RJ Haarsma, MJ Roberts, PL Vidale… - Geoscientific Model …, 2016 - gmd.copernicus.org
Robust projections and predictions of climate variability and change, particularly at regional
scales, rely on the driving processes being represented with fidelity in model simulations …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Extreme winds and precipitation during landfall of atmospheric rivers

D Waliser, B Guan - Nature Geoscience, 2017 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers—long, narrow filaments of large integrated water vapour transport—are
associated with weather and water extremes, such as precipitation extremes and flooding in …

Global analysis of climate change projection effects on atmospheric rivers

V Espinoza, DE Waliser, B Guan… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A uniform, global approach is used to quantify how atmospheric rivers (ARs) change
between Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 historical simulations and future …

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 …

Forest fire danger extremes in Europe under climate change: variability and uncertainty

D De Rigo, G Libertà, TH Durrant, TA Vivancos… - 2017 - hal.science
Forests cover over a third of the total land area of Europe. In recent years, large forest fires
have repeatedly affected Europe, in particular the Mediterranean countries. Fire danger is …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme atmospheric rivers in a warming climate

S Wang, X Ma, S Zhou, L Wu, H Wang, Z Tang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme atmospheric rivers (EARs) are responsible for most of the severe precipitation and
disastrous flooding along the coastal regions in midlatitudes. However, the current non-eddy …