Variability of rainfall from tropical cyclones in the eastern USA and its association to the AMO and ENSO

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 273-283

  Nogueira, Ricardo C ^a   Keim, Barry D ^b   Brown, David P ^c   Robbins, Kevin D ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; SPATIAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; NEW ENGLAND; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875375204     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0722-y     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Barlow M (2011) Influence of hurricane-related activity on North American extreme precipitation. Geophys Res Lett 38: L04705.
2. Blake, ES, Rappaport, EN, Landsea, CW (2007) The deadliest, costliest, and most intense United States tropical cyclones from 1851 to 2006 (and other frequently requested hurricane facts). NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS TPC-5, National Hurricane Center, Miami, Florida. http://www. nhc. noaa. gov/Deadliest_Costliest. shtml.
3. Bove MC, Elsner JB, Landsea CW, Niu X, O'Brien JJ (1998) Effect of El Niño on U. S. landfalling hurricanes, revisited. Bull Am Meteorol Soc 79(11): 2477-2482.
4. Comrie AC, Glen EC (1998) Principal components-based regionalization of precipitation regimes across the southwest United States and northern Mexico, with an application to monsoon precipitation variability. Clim Res 10(3): 201-215.
5. Cry GW (1967) Effects of tropical cyclone rainfall on the distribution of precipitation over the Eastern and Southern United States. United States Department of Commerce, Environmental Sciences Services Administration Professional Paper 1, p 67.
6. Curtis S (2008) The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation and extreme daily precipitation over the US and Mexico during the hurricane season. Clim Dyn 30: 343-351. doi: 10. 1007/s00382-007-0295-0.
7. Diem JE, Brown DP (2006) Tropospheric moisture and heavy monsoonal rainfall over the southwestern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 111, doi: 10. 1029/2005JD006836.
8. Emanuel K (2005) Divine wind-the history and science of hurricanes. Oxford University Press, New York.
9. Englenhart PJ, Douglas AV (2001) The role of eastern North Pacific tropical storms in the rainfall climatology of western Mexico. Int J Climatol 21(11): 1357-1370.
10. Gleason BE (2006) Characteristics of tropical cyclone rainfall in the United States. 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Session 16C, Tropical cyclones and climate V-Atlantic Basin.
11. Goldenberg SB, Landsea CW, Mestas-Nunez AM, Gray WM (2001) The recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity: Causes and implications. Science 293(5529): 474-479. doi: 10. 1126/science. 1060040.
12. Gray WM (1984) Atlantic seasonal hurricane frequency. Part I: El Nino and 30 mb quasi-biennial oscillation influences. Mon Weather Rev 112: 1649-1668.
13. Gray WM (2006) Hurricanes and climate change: assessing the linkages following the 2006 Season. George Marshall Institute: http://www. marshall. org/article. php?id=465. Accessed 10 April 2007.
14. Hart RE, Evans JL (2001) A climatology of the extratropical transitions of atlantic tropical cyclones. J Clim 14: 546-564.
15. Jarvinen BR, Neumann CJ, Davis MD (1984) A tropical cyclone data tape for the North Atlantic basin, 1886-1983: Contents, limitations, and uses. NOAA Tech. Memo., NWS NHC 22, p 21.
16. Karl TR, Gleason B, Levinson D, Wallis T, Pietrafesa LJ, Xie L, et al (2005) Trends and variations of Hurricane related precipitation. AMS forum: Living in the coastal zone.
17. Keim BD, Robbins KD (2006) Occurrence dates of North Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes: 2005 perspective. Geophys Res Lett 33: L21706. doi: 10. 1029/2006GL027671.
18. Keim BD, Muller RA, Stone GW (2004) Spatial and temporal variability of coastal storms in the North Atlantic basin. Mar Geol 210: 7-15.
19. Keim BD, Muller RA, Stone GW (2007) Spatiotemporal patterns and return periods of tropical storm and hurricane strikes from Texas to Maine. J Clim 20(14): 3498-3509.
20. Klotzbach PJ (2011) El Niño-Southern Oscillation's impact on Atlantic basin hurricanes and U. S. landfalls. J Clim 24: 1252-1263.
21. Knight DB, Davis RE (2007) Climatology of tropical cyclone rainfall in the Southeastern Unite States. Phys Geogr 28(2): 126-147.
22. Knight DB, Davis RE (2009) Contribution of tropical cyclones to extreme rainfall events in the Southeastern U. S. J Geophys Res 114: D23102.
23. Landsea CW, Pielke RA Jr, Mestas-Nuñez AM, Knaff JA (1999) Atlantic basin hurricanes: indices of climatic change. Clim Change 42: 89-129.
24. Larson J, Zhou Y, Higgins RW (2005) Characteristics of landfalling tropical cyclones in the United States and Mexico: Climatology and interannual variability. J Clim 18: 1247-1262.
25. Mather J (1974) Climatology: fundamentals and applications. McGraw-Hill, New York.
26. Medlin JM, Kimball SK, Blackwell KG (2007) Radar and rain gauge analysis of the extreme rainfall during hurricane Danny's (1997) landfall. Mon Weather Rev 135(5): 1869-1888.
27. Mo KC (2000) The association between intraseasonal oscillations and tropical storms in the Atlantic. Mon Weather Rev 128(12): 4097-4107.
28. Nogueira R, Keim BD (2010) Annual volume and area variations in tropical cyclone rainfall over the Eastern United States. J Clim 23(16): 4363-4374.
29. Nogueira R, Keim BD (2011) Contributions of Atlantic tropical cyclones to monthly and seasonal rainfall in the Eastern United States 1960-2007. Theor Appl Climatol. doi: 10. 1007/s00704-010-0292-9.
30. Pielke RA Jr, Landsea CW (1999) La Niña, El Niño, and Atlantic hurricane damages in the United States. Bull Amer Meteor Soc 80(10): 2027-2033.
31. Rao GV, Macarthur PD (1994) The SSM/I estimated rainfall amounts of tropical cyclones and their potential in predicting the cyclone intensity changes. Mon Weather Rev 122(7): 1568-1574.
32. Rappaport E (2008) Inland Flooding. National Hurricane Center website. http://www. nhc. noaa. gov/HAW2/english/inland_flood. shtml. Accessed 10 July 2008.
33. Rodgers EB, Adler RF, Pierce HF (2001) Contribution of tropical cyclones to the North Atlantic climatological rainfall as observed from satellites. J Appl Meteorol 40: 1785-1800.
34. Shepherd JM, Grundstein A, Mote TL (2007) Quantifying the contribution of tropical cyclones to extreme rainfall along the coastal southeastern United States. Geophys Res Lett 34: L23810.
35. Smith SR, Brolley J, Tartaglione CA (2007) ENSO's impact on regional U. S. hurricane activity. J Clim 20: 1404-1414.
36. Tonkin H, Landsea CW, Holland GJ, Li S (1997) Tropical cyclones and climate change: a preliminary assessment. In: Henderson-Sellers WH (ed) Assessing climate change: results from the model evaluation consortium for climate assessment. Gordon and Breach, New York.
37. Trenberth KE (1997) The definition of El Niño. Bull Am Meteorol Soc 78(12): 2771-2777.
38. White D, Richman M, Yarnal B (1991) Climate regionalization and rotation of principal components. Int J Climatol 11(1): 1-125.
39. Williams CN, Menne MJ, Vose RS, Easterling DR (2007) United States historical climatology network monthly temperature and precipitation data. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee: http://cdiac. ornl. gov/epubs/ndp/ushcn/usa_monthly. html. Accessed 3 October 2007.
40. Yarnal B (1993) Synoptic climatology in environmental analysis. Belhaven Press, London.