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Research Highlights Topic: Water Cycle

high-resolution global climate simulation ensembles highlights major advances in representing mesoscale convective systems (MCSs)
New high-resolution climate simulation ensembles highlight the importance of mesoscale dynamics in shaping future extreme precipitation
Spatial distribution of the season in which atmospheric river (AR) frequency peaks for consistent (0.6–0.8) and highly consistent regions (0.8–1) across different detection algorithms and integrated vapor transport (IVT) from 1981 to 2016.
A global look at the consistency of atmospheric river seasonality
Figure 1. The 35-year trends of winter-spring sea surface temperature, precipitation, and sea level pressure. a, observation of 1980-2014. Model-simulated 35-year trends for pre-industrial climate grouped and averaged for b, the strongest El Niño-like trends and c, the strongest  La Niña-like trends. Model-simulated 35-year trends for 1980-2014  grouped and averaged for the ensemble members d, with the strongest El Niño-like trends and e, with the strongest La Niña-like trends.
Drivers of the Southwestern US precipitation decline
Scientific graphic that shows different plots of SST, SSS, MLD, and SSH
The upper ocean response to atmospheric rivers
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Models with corrected double-ITCZ projected drier winters for the US Southwest
Spatial distribution of two widespread precipitation events that occurred on 8 May 1995 and 13 September 1961 and geometric illustration of the extent of an SHPE on the ground.
Understanding the spatial structure of simultaneous heavy precipitation events over the conterminous United States
Box-plots for the future phase changes (units: days) in the precipitation annual cycle
Why is the seasonal delay of tropical rainfall only evident over land?
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Governance of Long-Duration Floods
linear model accounting for changes in drying ratio and mean source distance
Global patterns of evaporation and precipitation leave a traceable isotopic fingerprint
Megadrougth schematic and teleconnections
Volcanic eruptions interact with El Nino events, affecting sustained ‘megadrought’
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