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 …

Record-high Antarctic Peninsula temperatures and surface melt in February 2022: a compound event with an intense atmospheric river

IV Gorodetskaya, C Durán-Alarcón… - npj climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) experienced a new extreme warm event and record-
high surface melt in February 2022, rivaling the recent temperature records from 2015 and …

The shifting scales of western US landfalling atmospheric rivers under climate change

AM Rhoades, AD Jones, A Srivastava… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) can be a boon and bane to water resource managers as they have
the ability to replenish water reserves, but they can also generate million‐to‐billion‐dollar …

A global climatological perspective on the importance of Rossby wave breaking and intense moisture transport for extreme precipitation events

AJ De Vries - Weather and Climate Dynamics Discussions, 2020 - wcd.copernicus.org
Extreme precipitation events (EPEs) cause frequently flooding with dramatic socioeconomic
impacts in many parts of the world. Previous studies considered two synoptic-scale …

Relationship between weather regimes and atmospheric rivers in East Antarctica

B Pohl, V Favier, J Wille, DG Udy… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we define weather regimes in the East Antarctica—Southern Ocean sector based on
daily anomalies of 700 hPa geopotential height derived from ERA5 reanalysis during 1979 …

Significant increase of global anomalous moisture uptake feeding landfalling Atmospheric Rivers

I Algarra, R Nieto, AM Ramos, J Eiras-Barca… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
One of the most robust signals of climate change is the relentless rise in global mean
surface temperature, which is linked closely with the water-holding capacity of the …

[HTML][HTML] Increased amplitude of atmospheric rivers and associated extreme precipitation in ultra-high-resolution greenhouse warming simulations

AB Nellikkattil, JY Lee, B Guan… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers play an integral role in the global water cycle, but predicting their future
changes remains uncertain due to inter-model and inter-detection-method differences …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy precipitation over Italy from the Mediterranean storm “Vaia” in October 2018: Assessing the role of an atmospheric river

S Davolio, S Della Fera, S Laviola… - Monthly Weather …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
ARPAV, 2018: 27–30 ottobre 2018. Maltempo in Veneto: Pioggia e vento eccezionali (27–
30 October 2018. Severe weather in the Veneto region: Exceptional rain and wind) …

Ocean fronts and eddies force atmospheric rivers and heavy precipitation in western North America

X Liu, X Ma, P Chang, Y Jia, D Fu, G Xu, L Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are responsible for over 90% of poleward water vapor transport in
the mid-latitudes and can produce extreme precipitation when making landfall. However …

[HTML][HTML] Sources and transport pathways of precipitating waters in cold-season deep North Atlantic cyclones

L Papritz, F Aemisegger… - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Extratropical cyclones are responsible for a large share of precipitation at midlatitudes and
they profoundly impact the characteristics of the water cycle. In this study, we use the ERA5 …