While water vapor increases tend to be governed by the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship to temperature, precipitation extreme changes are more complex and can increase more rapidly, particularly in the tropics. Progress may be aided by bringing separate research threads together and by casting theory in...
Current Climate Change Reports (2022) 8:17–33 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-021-00177-z PRECIPITATION EXTREMES AND CLIMATE CHANGE (C MULLER, SECTION EDITOR) Precipitation Extremes and Water Vapor Relationships in Current Climate and Implications for Climate Change J. David Neelin1 · Cristian ...
The formation of these events has traditionally been explained as being a consequence of the potential instability and water vapour content associated with the high heat and evaporation fluxes from the Mediterranean Sea, which in late summer can reach temperatures of 30 °C. However, different stu...
Materials and methods Study area In this study, a change in the severity of increased extreme precipitation is investigated across CONUS. CONUS has diversities in climate zones, geomorphological features, and water vapor sources from the Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean11....
The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration(BTH) has successively witnessed the extraordinary precipitation extremes (PEs) with huge economic losses and death-toll in the recent decade. To timely and comprehensively understand the PEs in the urban agglomeration, we investigate the characteristic and mec...
However, the water vapor holding capacity of air increases with climate warming (Boer, 1993; Brönnimann et al., 2022; Trenberth, 1999). As a consequence, the intensity of extreme rainfall increases (e.g., Fischer et al., 2021; Fischer and Knutti, 2016; Scherrer et al., 2016). ...
The Oroville Dam crisis vividly illustrated the fact that Californias water infrastructure is already vulnerable to extremes of present climate. (CA Dept. of Water Resources) With a large projected increase in the occurrence of both extreme wet and extreme dry events, a new question arises: will...
Specifically, a smaller domain with coarser resolution in their embedded CRMs led to a strengthened Hadley cell, which they argued enabled enhanced evaporation in the subtropics, in turn resulting in greater low-level water vapor flux convergence into the tropics. However, given the fact that the...
Sample sizes of observed climate extremes are typically too small to reliably constrain return period estimates when there is non-stationary behaviour. To increase the historical record 100-fold, we apply the UNprecedented Simulated Extreme ENsemble (UNSEEN) approach, by pooling ensemble members and lea...
· Eastern-Pacific El Niño · Central-Pacific El Niño · Western Pacific subtropical high · Westerly jet 1 Introduction Since the advent of the industrial revolution, anthropogenic activities have caused global warming, which has led to an intensification of the global water vapor ...