Atmospheric rivers do not explain UK summer extreme rainfall

被引：33

作者：

Champion, Adrian J. ^{[1
]}

Allan, Richard P. ^{[1
]}

Lavers, David A. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Reading, Dept Meteorol, Reading, Berks, England

[2] Univ Calif San Diego, Ctr Western Weather & Water Extremes, Scripps Inst Oceanog, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES | 2015年 / 120卷 / 14期

基金：

美国海洋和大气管理局;

关键词：

atmospheric river; extreme rain; UK; summer; INLAND PENETRATION; UNITED-KINGDOM; PRECIPITATION; STATES; SCALE; FLOOD;

D O I：

10.1002/2014JD022863

中图分类号：

P4 [大气科学（气象学）];

学科分类号：

0706 ; 070601 ;

摘要：

Extreme rainfall events continue to be one of the largest natural hazards in the UK. In winter, heavy precipitation and floods have been linked with intense moisture transport events associated with atmospheric rivers (ARs), yet no large-scale atmospheric precursors have been linked to summer flooding in the UK. This study investigates the link between ARs and extreme rainfall from two perspectives: (1) Given an extreme rainfall event, is there an associated AR? (2) Given an AR, is there an associated extreme rainfall event? We identify extreme rainfall events using the UK Met Office daily rain gauge data set and link these to ARs using two different horizontal resolution atmospheric data sets (ERA-Interim and Twentieth Century Reanalysis). The results show that less than 35% of winter ARs and less than 15% of summer ARs are associated with an extreme rainfall event. Consistent with previous studies, at least 50% of extreme winter rainfall events are associated with an AR. However, less than 20% of the identified summer extreme rainfall events are associated with an AR. The dependence of the water vapor transport intensity threshold used to define an AR on the years included in the study, and on the length of the season, is also examined. Including a longer period (1900-2012) compared to previous studies (1979-2005) reduces the water vapor transport intensity threshold used to define an AR.

引用

页码：6731 / 6741

页数：11

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