1. Useful links
MIMIC-TPW ver.2 (University of Wisconsin -Madison):
MIMIC-TPW2 is an experimental global product of total precipitable water (TPW), using morphological compositing of the MIRS retrieval from several available operational microwave-frequency sensors. The specific technique used here was initially described in a 2010 paper by Wimmers and Velden. This Version 2 is developed from an older method that uses simpler, but more limited TPW retrievals and advection calculations.
EUMETView: https://view.eumetsat.int/productviewer?v=default
ePort: http://resources.eumetrain.org/ePort_MapViewerEWC_MSG/index.html
2. Literature
[1] Zhu, Y., & Newell, R. E. (1994). Atmospheric rivers and bombs. Geophysical Research Letters, 21, 1999−2002.
[2] F. Martin Ralph, Jonathan J. Rutz, Jason M. Cordeira, Michael Dettinger, Michael Anderson, David Reynolds, Lawrence J. Schick, and Chris Smallcomb, A SCALE TO CHARACTERIZE THE STRENGTH AND IMPACTS OF ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS, BAMS, Feb. 2019, pp. 269-289.
[3] Lavers D. A. et al.: Future changes in atmospheric rivers and their implications for winter flooding in Britain, Env. Research Letters 8 (2013)034010 (8pp). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034010
[4] Lavers D. A. et al.: The detection of atmospheric rivers in atmospheric reanalyses and their link to British winter floods and the large-scale climatic circulation, J. of Geophys. Research, Vol. 117, D201006, doi:10.1029/2012JD018027, 2012
Francesco Sioni: Thesis: Revisiting the atmospheric dynamics of the two century floods over north-eastern Italy, Universita di Trento, Universität Innsbruck, 2021.
David A. Lavers, Gabriele Villarini, Richard P. Allan, Eric F. Wood and Andrew J. Wade: The detection of atmospheric rivers in atmospheric reanalyses and their links to British winter floods and the large-scale climatic circulation, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 117, D20106, doi:10.1029/2012JD018027, 2012.
Shuyu Wang, Xiaohui Ma, Shenghui Zhou, Lixin Wu, Hong Wang, Zhili Tang, Guangzhi Xu, Zhao Jing, Zhaohui Chen and Bolan Gan: Extreme atmospheric rivers in a warming climate, Nature Communications, 14:3219, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38980-x
Guan, B., Waliser, D. E., & Ralph, F. M. (2023). Global application of the atmospheric river scale. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2022JD037180. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037180
Hing Ong and Da Yang: Vapor kinetic energy for the detection and understanding of atmospheric rivers, Nature Communications, 15:9428, 2024
Lavers D. A. et al.: Winter floods in Britain are connected to atmospheric rivers, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 38, L23803, doi:10.1029/2011GL049783, 2011.
David A. Lavers and Gabriele Villarini: The nexus between atmospheric rivers and extreme precipitation across Europe, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 40, 3259−3264, doi:10.1002/grl.50636, 2013.
Paul Froidevaux, Olivia Martius: Exceptional integrated vapour transport toward orography: an important precursor to severe floods in Switzerland, https://doi.org/10.7892/boris.83859
O. Rössler, P. Froidevaux, U. Börst, R. Rickli, O. Martius, and R. Weingartner: Retrospective analysis of a nonforecasted rain-on-snow flood in the Alps − a matter of model limitations or unpredictable nature?, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 2265−2285, 2014 www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/18/2265/2014/, doi:10.5194/hess-18-2265-2014
Jason M. Cordeira, F. Martin Ralph, Andrew Martin, Natalie Gaggini, J. Ryan Spackman, Paul J. Neiman, Jonathan J. Rutz, and Roger Pierce: Forecasting Atmospheric Rivers during CalWater 2015, BAMS, p. 449-459, March 2017, DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00245.1
F. Martin Ralph, Jonathan J. Rutz, Jason M. Cordeira, Michael Dettinger, Michael Anderson, David Reynolds, Lawrence J. Schick, and Chris Smallcomb: A SCALE TO CHARACTERIZE THE STRENGTH AND IMPACTS OF ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS, BAMS, p. 269-289, Feb. 2019.
Mahlstein, I., Bhend, J., Spirig, Ch. And Martius, O.: Developing an Automated Medium-Range Flood Awareness System for Switzerland Based on Probabilistic Forecasts of Integrated Water Vapor Fluxes, Weather and Forecasting, Vol. 34, p. 1759-1776, Dec. 2019. DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-18-0189.1
J. T. Pasquier, S. Pfahl, and C. M. Grams: Modulation of Atmospheric River Occurrence and Associated Precipitation Extremes in the North Atlantic Region by European Weather Regimes, Geophysical Research Letters, Letters, 46, 1014−1023. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081194
H. F. Dacre, P. A. Clark, O. Martinez-Alvarado , M. A. Stringer, and D. A. Lavers: HOW DO ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS FORM?, BAMS, p. 1243-1255, August 2015. DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00031.1
F. M. Ralph, T. Coleman, P. J. Neiman, R. J. Zamora and M. D. Dettinger: Observed Impacts of Duration and Seasonality of Atmospheric-River Landfalls on Soil Moisture and Runoff in Coastal Northern California, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 14, p. 443-459, April 2013. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-076.1