Future atmospheric rivers and impacts on precipitation: Overview of the ARTMIP Tier 2 high‐resolution global warming experiment

CA Shields, AE Payne, EJ Shearer… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are long, narrow synoptic scale weather features important for
Earth's hydrological cycle typically transporting water vapor poleward, delivering …

Future increases in North American extreme precipitation in CMIP6 downscaled with LOCA

DW Pierce, DR Cayan, DR Feldman… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
A new set of CMIP6 data downscaled using the localized constructed analogs (LOCA)
statistical method has been produced, covering central Mexico through southern Canada at …

Climate change contributions to future atmospheric river flood damages in the western United States

TW Corringham, J McCarthy, T Shulgina… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) generate most of the economic losses associated with flooding in
the western United States and are projected to increase in intensity with climate change …

Back-to-back high category atmospheric river landfalls occur more often on the west coast of the United States

Y Zhou, M Wehner, W Collins - Communications Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The catastrophic December 2022-January 2023 nine atmospheric rivers in
California underscore the urgent need to better understand such high-risk weather …

Remote influence of southern Tibetan plateau heating on North Pacific atmospheric rivers

Y Zhao, M Lu, L Zhang, TF Cheng - Journal of Climate, 2025 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study examines the remote influence of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) diabatic heating on
atmospheric river (AR) activity in the North Pacific. First, we identify a sensitive heating …

[HTML][HTML] A statewide, weather-regime based stochastic weather generator for process-based bottom-up climate risk assessments in California–Part I: Model evaluation

N Najibi, AJ Perez, W Arnold, A Schwarz, R Maendly… - Climate Services, 2024 - Elsevier
This study is the first of a two-part series presenting a novel weather regime-based
stochastic weather generator to support bottom-up climate vulnerability assessments of …

Temporal compounding increases economic impacts of atmospheric rivers in California

C Bowers, KA Serafin, JW Baker - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Temporally compounding atmospheric river (AR) events cause severe flooding and damage
in California. However, the contribution of temporal compounding to AR-induced loss has …

Anthropogenic intensification of cool‐season precipitation is not yet detectable across the Western United States

AP Williams, KA McKinnon… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The cool season (November–March) of 2022–2023 was exceptional in the western
United States (US), with the highest precipitation totals in≥ 128 years in some areas …

Observed and projected changes in snow accumulation and snowline in California's snowy mountains

T Shulgina, A Gershunov, BJ Hatchett, K Guirguis… - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascades—California's snowy mountains—are
primary freshwater sources and natural reservoirs for the states of California and Nevada …

Watershed memory amplified the Oroville rain-on-snow flood of February 2017

K Haleakala, WT Brandt, BJ Hatchett, D Li… - PNAS …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Mountain snowpacks are transitioning to experience less snowfall and more rainfall as the
climate warms, creating more persistent low-to no-snow conditions. This precipitation shift …