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 …

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 …

Climate vulnerability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem

LG Crozier, MM McClure, T Beechie, SJ Bograd… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Major ecological realignments are already occurring in response to climate change. To be
successful, conservation strategies now need to account for geographical patterns in traits …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The relationship between extratropical cyclone strength and atmospheric river intensity and position

Z Zhang, FM Ralph, M Zheng - Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Extratropical cyclones (ECs) and atmospheric rivers (ARs) impact precipitation over the US
West Coast and other analogous regions globally. This study investigates the relationship …

Atmospheric river impacts on Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance

KS Mattingly, TL Mote, X Fettweis - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) mass loss has accelerated since the turn of the twenty‐
first century. Several recent episodes of rapid GrIS ablation coincided with intense moisture …