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. Neiman, Paul; Martin Ralph, F.; A. Wick, Gary; D. Lundquist, Jessica; D. Dettinger, Michael

doi:10.1175/2007jhm855.1

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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

Published in Journal of Hydrometeorology • Feb 1, 2008

Authors:

Paul J. Neiman

F. Martin Ralph

Gary A. Wick

Abstract

Abstract The pre-cold-frontal low-level jet within oceanic extratropical cyclones represents the lower-tropospheric component of a deeper corridor of concentrated water vapor transport in the cyclone warm sector. These corridors are referred to as atmospheric rivers (ARs) because they are narrow rel...

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Extratropical cyclone

Environmental science

Climatology

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