Atmospheric Rivers: Toward Global Understanding and Applications
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 457
Special Issue Editors
Interests: atmospheric rivers; subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction; hydroclimate variability; large-scale climate dynamics
Interests: high-impact weather and climate; water cycle in the climate system; large-scale climate variability and trend
Interests: climate change; earth system models; remote sensing; model data fusion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Atmospheric rivers (ARs)—long and narrow corridors of enhanced water vapor transport in the lower troposphere—are influential on the global and regional water cycle with a multitude of hydrometeorological impacts. As a potential source of precipitation, both in the form of rain and snow, ARs can act as drought busters alleviating existing drought conditions and replenishing reservoir levels. On the other hand, extreme wind and precipitation associated with ARs can result in damaging events such as flooding, storm surges, landslides, avalanches, and debris flows. Gaining process-level insights and developing skillful methods for detecting and forecasting ARs helps water resource managers in building action plans for emergency response and mitigation of socioeconomic losses. While prior research has largely focused on landfalling ARs in the midlatitudes, ARs in tropical/subtropical, polar, and inland areas, as well as AR genesis and life cycle development away from their landfall locations, are starting to generate considerable scientific interests.
To further highlight and enhance the recognition of ARs as a particular type of extreme events, and to encourage better understanding of AR characteristics and impacts in different geographic and socioeconomic communities, this Special Issue invites original scientific contributions from a broad range of topics relevant to ARs with the following focus areas: (i) Meteorological, hydrological, and ecological impacts of ARs; (ii) Dynamical processes driving ARs; (iii) AR detection algorithms and associated uncertainties; (iv) AR observations, modeling and forecasting; (v) Future changes in AR activity under different warming scenarios; (vi) Different flavors and regional manifestation of ARs; (vii) Association of ARs with modes of climate variability and other prominent phenomena in the climate system; and (viii) Emerging and novel applications of the AR concept in studying and managing weather, water, and climate extremes.
Dr. Agniv Sengupta
Dr. Bin Guan
Dr. Elias C. Massoud
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- atmospheric rivers
- water resources
- extreme events
- hydrometeorology
- climate variability and change
