Intermediate frequency atmospheric disturbances: A dynamical bridge connecting western U.S. extreme precipitation with East Asian cold surges

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3723-3735

  Jiang, Tianyu ^a   Evans, Katherine J ^b   Deng, Yi ^a   Dong, Xiquan ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; DISTURBANCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESOLUTION; RIVER;

FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84932194226     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021209     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Bao, J.-W., S. A. Michelson, P. J. Neiman, F. M. Ralph, and J. M. Wilczak (2006), Interpretation of enhanced integrated water vapor bands associated with extratropical cyclones: Their formation and connection to tropical moisture, Mon. Weather Rev., 134(4), 1063–1080.
2. Byna, S., Prabhat, M. F. Wehner, and K. J. Wu (2011), Detecting atmospheric rivers in large climate datasets, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Petascal Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities, pp. 7–14, ACM, Seattle, Wash.
3. Dettinger, M. D., F. M. Ralph, T. Das, P. J. Neiman, and D. R. Cayan (2011), Atmospheric rivers, floods and the water resources of California, Water Resour. Res., 3, 445–478, doi:10.3390/w3020445.
4. Dirmeyer, P. A., and K. L. Brubaker (2007), Characterization of the global hydrologic cycle from a back-trajectory analysis of atmospheric water vapor, J. Hydrometeorol., 8(1), 20–37.
5. Duchon, C. E. (1979), Lanczos filtering in one and two dimensions, J. Appl. Meteorol., 18(8), 1016–1022.
6. Evans, K. J., P. H. Lauritzen, S. K. Mishra, R. B. Neale, M. A. Taylor, and J. J. Tribbia (2013), AMIP simulation with the cam4 spectral element dynamical core, J. Clim., 26(3), 689–709.
7. Gent, P. R., et al. (2011), The community climate system model version 4, J. Clim., 24(19), 4973–4991.
8. Gimeno, L., A. Drumond, R. Nieto, R. M. Trigo, and A. Stohl (2010), On the origin of continental precipitation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L13804, doi:10.1029/2010GL043712.
9. Guan, B., N. P. Molotch, D. E. Waliser, E. J. Fetzer, and P. J. Neiman (2010), Extreme snowfall events linked to atmospheric rivers and surface air temperature via satellite measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L20401, doi:10.1029/2010GL044696.
10. Guan, B., D. E. Waliser, N. P. Molotch, E. J. Fetzer, and P. J. Neiman (2012), Does the madden-julian oscillation influence wintertime atmospheric rivers and snowpack in the sierra nevada?, Mon. Weather Rev., 140(2), 325–342.
11. Jiang, T., and Y. Deng (2011), Downstream modulation of North Pacific atmospheric river activity by East Asian cold surges, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L20807, doi:10.1029/2011GL049462.
12. Jiang, T., Y. Deng, and W. Li (2013), Local kinetic energy budget of high-frequency and intermediate-frequency eddies: Winter climatology and interannual variability, Clim. Dyn., 41(3–4), 961–976.
13. Knippertz, P., and H. Wernli (2010), A lagrangian climatology of tropical moisture exports to the northern hemispheric extratropics, J. Clim., 23(4), 987–1003.
14. Kung, E. C., and P. H. Chan (1981), Energetics characteristics of the asian winter monsoon in the source region, Mon. Weather Rev., 109(4), 854–870.
15. Lau, K.-M., and M.-T. Li (1984), The monsoon of east asia and its global associations—A survey, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 65(2), 114–125.
16. Lau, N.-C., and K.-M. Lau (1984), The structure and energetics of midlatitude disturbances accompanying cold-air outbreaks over east asia, Mon. Weather Rev., 112(7), 1309–1327.
17. Lavers, D. A., R. P. Allan, E. F. Wood, G. Villarini, D. J. Brayshaw, and A. J. Wade (2011), Winter floods in Britain are connected to atmospheric rivers, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L23803, doi:10.1029/2011GL049783.
18. Lavers, D. A., G. Villarini, R. P. Allan, E. F. Wood, and A. J. Wade (2012), The detection of atmospheric rivers in atmospheric reanalyses and their links to British winter floods and the large-scale climatic circulation, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D20106, doi:10.1029/2012JD018027.
19. Li, F., W. D. Collins, M. F. Wehner, D. L. Williamson, J. G. Olson, and C. Algieri (2011), Impact of horizontal resolution on simulation of precipitation extremes in an aqua-planet version of Community Atmospheric Model (CAM3), Tellus, Ser. A, 63(5), 884–892.
20. Liu, J., B. Wang, H. Lu, and S. Ma (2008), A graph-based image annotation framework, Pattern Recognit. Lett., 29(4), 407–415.
21. Nakamura, H., M. Nakamura, and J. L. Anderson (1997), The role of high- and low-frequency dynamics in blocking formation, Mon. Weather Rev., 125(9), 2074–2093.
22. Neiman, P. J., F. M. Ralph, G. A. Wick, J. D. Lundquist, and M. D. Dettinger (2008a), Meteorological characteristics and overland precipitation impacts of atmospheric rivers affecting the west coast of north America based on eight years of SSM/I satellite observations, J. Hydrometeorol., 9(1), 22–47.
23. Neiman, P. J., F. M. Ralph, G. A. Wick, Y.-H. Kuo, T.-K. Wee, Z. Ma, G. H. Taylor, and M. D. Dettinger (2008b), Diagnosis of an intense atmospheric river impacting the pacific northwest: Storm summary and offshore vertical structure observed with COSMIC satellite retrievals, Mon. Weather Rev., 136(11), 4398–4420.
24. Neiman, P. J., L. J. Schick, F. M. Ralph, M. Hughes, and G. A. Wick (2011), Flooding in western washington: The connection to atmospheric rivers, J. Hydrometeorol., 12(6), 1337–1358.
25. Newman, M., G. N. Kiladis, K. M. Weickmann, F. M. Ralph, and P. D. Sardeshmukh (2012), Relative contributions of synoptic and low-frequency eddies to time-mean atmospheric moisture transport, including the role of atmospheric rivers, J. Clim., 25(21), 7341–7361.
26. Park, T.-W., C.-H. Ho, and S. Yang (2011), Relationship between the Arctic Oscillation and Cold Surges over East Asia, J. Clim., 24(1), 68–83.
27. Ralph, F. M., and M. D. Dettinger (2011), Storms, floods, and the science of atmospheric rivers, Eos Trans. AGU, 92(32), 265–266.
28. Ralph, F. M., and M. D. Dettinger (2012), Historical and national perspectives on extreme west coast precipitation associated with atmospheric rivers during December 2010, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 93(6), 783–790.
29. Ralph, F. M., P. J. Neiman, and G. A. Wick (2004), Satellite and CALJET aircraft observations of atmospheric rivers over the eastern north pacific ocean during the winter of 1997/98, Mon. Weather Rev., 132(7), 1721–1745.
30. Ralph, F. M., P. J. Neiman, and R. Rotunno (2005), Dropsonde observations in low-level jets over the northeastern pacific ocean from CALJET-1998 and PACJET-2001: Mean vertical-profile and atmospheric-river characteristics, Mon. Weather Rev., 133(4), 889–910.
31. Ralph, F. M., P. J. Neiman, G. A. Wick, S. I. Gutman, M. D. Dettinger, D. R. Cayan, and A. B. White (2006), Flooding on California’s Russian River: Role of atmospheric rivers, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L13801, doi:10.1029/2006GL026689.
32. Ralph, F. M., P. J. Neiman, G. N. Kiladis, K. Weickmann, and D. W. Reynolds (2010), A multiscale observational case study of a pacific atmospheric river exhibiting tropical–extratropical connections and a mesoscale frontal wave, Mon. Weather Rev., 139(4), 1169–1189.
33. Rayner, N. A., P. Brohan, D. E. Parker, C. K. Folland, J. J. Kennedy, M. Vanicek, T. J. Ansell, and S. F. B. Tett (2006), Improved analyses of changes and uncertainties in sea surface temperature measured in situ since the mid-nineteenth century: The HadSST2 dataset, J. Clim., 19(3), 446–469.
34. Rienecker, M. M., et al. (2011), MERRA: NASA’s modern-era retrospective analysis for research and applications, J. Clim., 24(14), 3624–3648.
35. Stohl, A., and P. James (2005), A lagrangian analysis of the atmospheric branch of the global water cycle. Part II: Moisture transports between earth’s ocean basins and river catchments, J. Hydrometeorol., 6(6), 961–984.
36. Wang, B. (2005), The Asian Monsoon, 787 pp., Springer/Praxis Co., N. Y.
37. Warner, M. D., C. F. Mass, and E. P. Salathé (2012), Wintertime extreme precipitation events along the pacific northwest coast: Climatology and synoptic evolution, Mon. Weather Rev., 140(7), 2021–2043.
38. Wehner, M. F., R. Smith, G. Bala, and P. Duffy (2010a), The effect of horizontal resolution on simulation of very extreme US precipitation events in a global atmosphere model, Clim. Dyn., 34(2–3), 241–247.
39. Wehner, M. F., G. Bala, P. Duffy, A. A. Mirin, and R. Romano (2010b), Towards direct simulation of future tropical cyclone statistics in a highresolution global atmospheric model, Adv. Meteorol., 2010, Article 915303.
40. Wick, G. A., P. J. Neiman, and F. M. Ralph (2013), Description and validation of an automated objective technique for identification and characterization of the integrated water vapor signature of atmospheric rivers, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 51, 2166–2176.
41. Zhang, Y., K. R. Sperber, and J. S. Boyle (1997), Climatology and interannual variation of the east asian winter monsoon: Results from the 1979–95 NCEP/NCAR reanalysis, Mon. Weather Rev., 125(10), 2605–2619.
42. Zhu, Y., and R. E. Newell (1998), A proposed algorithm for moisture fluxes from atmospheric rivers, Mon. Weather Rev., 126(3), 725–735.