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 …

Early warm-season mesoscale convective systems dominate soil moisture–precipitation feedback for summer rainfall in central United States

H Hu, LR Leung, Z Feng - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
Land–atmosphere interactions play an important role in summer rainfall in the central United
States, where mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) contribute to 30 to 70% of warm …

Impact of atmospheric rivers on surface hydrological processes in western US watersheds

X Chen, LR Leung, M Wigmosta… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) can significantly modulate surface hydrological processes through
the extreme precipitation they produce. However, there is a lack of comprehensive …

The role of atmospheric rivers on groundwater: Lessons learned from an extreme wet year

ER Siirila‐Woodburn… - Water Resources …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
In the coastal regions of the western United States, atmospheric rivers (ARs) are associated
with the largest precipitation generating storms and contribute up to half of annual …

A joint soil‐vegetation‐atmospheric water tagging procedure with WRF‐Hydro: Implementation and application to the case of precipitation partitioning in the upper …

J Arnault, J Wei, T Rummler, B Fersch… - Water Resources …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric models such as the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model provide
a tool to evaluate the behavior of regional hydrological cycle components, including …

Quantitative separation of precipitation and permafrost waters used for evapotranspiration in a boreal forest: A numerical study using tracer model

H Park, M Tanoue, A Sugimoto… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Arctic precipitation (PG) that occurs as rainfall (Prain) or snowfall (Psnow) depending on the
prevailing climatic conditions results in seasonally specific hydrological events. Climate …

Understanding the distinct impacts of MCS and non-MCS rainfall on the surface water balance in the central United States using a numerical water-tagging technique

H Hu, LR Leung, Z Feng - Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2020‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Warm-season rainfall associated with mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) in the central
United States is characterized by higher intensity and nocturnal timing compared to rainfall …

The extent to which soil hydraulics can explain ecohydrological separation

CE Finkenbiner, SP Good, J Renée Brooks… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Field measurements of hydrologic tracers indicate varying magnitudes of geochemical
separation between subsurface pore waters. The potential for conventional soil physics …

Integrating a water tracer model into WRF‐Hydro for characterizing the effect of lateral flow in hydrologic simulations

H Hu, LR Leung, F Dominguez… - Water Resources …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Most current land models approximate terrestrial hydrological processes as one‐
dimensional vertical flow, neglecting lateral water movement from ridges to valleys. Such …

Atmospheric river frequency‐category characteristics shape US West Coast runoff

Y Zhou, JS North, AM Rhoades, J Tao… - Journal of …, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the factors influencing runoff response to atmospheric rivers (ARs)
over the US West Coast. We focused on runoff time series variations impacted by AR …