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 …

The residence time of water vapour in the atmosphere

L Gimeno, J Eiras-Barca, AM Durán-Quesada… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Atmospheric water vapour residence time (WVRT) is an essential indicator of how
atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics mediate hydrological cycle responses to …

Atmospheric river, a term encompassing different meteorological patterns

L Gimeno, I Algarra, J Eiras‐Barca… - Wiley …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The study of atmospheric rivers (ARs) and their impacts on extreme precipitation are
currently of great research interest in view of their clear socioeconomical implications …

Changes in moisture sources of atmospheric rivers landfalling the Iberian Peninsula with WRF‐FLEXPART

JC Fernández‐Alvarez, A Pérez‐Alarcón… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper makes use of a combination of FLEXPART‐WRF simulations forced with ERA5
and the CESM2 model—incorporated in the CMIP6 project—to infer a series of changes …

Influence of atmospheric rivers and associated weather systems on precipitation in the Arctic

M Lauer, A Rinke, I Gorodetskaya… - Atmospheric …, 2023‏ - acp.copernicus.org
In this study, we analyse the contribution of atmospheric rivers (ARs), cyclones, and fronts to
the total precipitation in the Arctic. We focus on two distinct periods of different weather …

GNSS geodesy quantifies water‐storage gains and drought improvements in California spurred by atmospheric rivers

HR Martens, N Lau, MJ Swarr, DF Argus… - Geophysical …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) deliver significant and essential precipitation to the western United
States (US) with consequential interannual variability. The intensity and frequency of ARs …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme precipitation events in the Mediterranean area: contrasting two different models for moisture source identification

S Cloux, D Garaboa-Paz, D Insua-Costa… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021‏ - hess.copernicus.org
Concern about heavy precipitation events has increasingly grown in the last years in
southern Europe, especially in the Mediterranean region. These occasional episodes can …

Regional differences in the effects of atmospheric moisture residence time on precipitation isotopes over Eurasia

Q Wang, Y Liu, G Zhu, S Lu, L Chen, Y Jiao, W Li… - Atmospheric …, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Regional variations in atmospheric moisture residence time (RT) highlight the need to obtain
independent observation indexes to constrain different model-based estimates. Stable …

Contribution of recycled and external advected moisture to precipitation and its inter‐annual variation over the Tibetan Plateau

M Ma, J Tang, T Ou, D Chen - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we performed a high‐resolution simulation using the Weather Research and
Forecasting model, integrated with water vapor tracers, covering the years 2005–2019. Our …

Precipitation efficiencies in a climatology of Southern Ocean extratropical cyclones

HF Dacre, O Martinez‐Alvarado… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation efficiency refers to the amount of water that is lost from the atmosphere through
precipitation compared to the available water vapor in the atmosphere. This metric plays a …