References
General information about Atmospheric Rivers:
NOAA: What are atmospheric rivers?
NOAA Research: Atmospheric Rivers: What are they and how does NOAA study them?
National Weather Service: Atmospheric River Brings Historic Rainfall to the Bay Area
Wikipedia: Atmospheric Rivers
Les Rowntree: What is An Atmospheric River, and How Does One Affect California's Rainfall?, Bay Nature magazine
Total Precipitable Water Product (NOAA):
General information: NESDIS Blended Total Precipitable Water (TPW) Products
bTPW Product: Atlantic Region
Literature on atmospheric rivers:
Ramos,A. M., Trigo, R. M., Liberato, M. L. R., and Tomé R.: Daily Precipitation Extreme Events in the Iberian Peninsula and Its Association with Atmospheric Rivers, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 16, Issue 2, 2015.
Guan, B., Waliser, D. E., and Ralph, F. M.: An Intercomparison between Reanalysis and Dropsone Observations of the Total Water Vapor Transport in Individual Atmospheric Rivers, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 19, Issue 2, 2018.
David A Lavers, Richard P Allan, Gabriele Villarini, Benjamin Lloyd-Hughes, David J Brayshaw and Andrew J Wade: Future changes in atmospheric rivers and their implications for winter flooding in Britain, Environ. Res. Lett. 8, 2013.
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, Bulletin of the American Met. Soc., March 2017.
David A. Lavers and Gabriele Villarini: The nexus between atmospheric rivers and extreme precipitation across Europe, Geophys. Res. Letters, Vol. 40, 2013, 3259-3264.
Pasquier, J. T., Pfahl, S., and Grams, C. M.: Modulation of Atmospheric River Occurrence and Associated Precipitation Extremes in the North Atlantic Region by European Weather Regimes, Geophys. Res. Letters, Vol. 46, 2018, 1014-1023.
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 metter of model limitations or unpredictable nature?, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 2265-2285, 2014.
H. F. Dacre, P. A. Clark, O. Martinez-Alvarado , M. A. Stringer, and D. A. Lavers: How do atmospheric rivers form?, Bulletin of the Amer. Met. Soc., August 2015, 1243-1255.
Ralph, F. M., Coleman, T., Neiman, P. J., Zamora, R. J., and Dettinger, M. D.: Observed Impacts of Duration and Seasonality of Atmospheric-River Landfalls on Soil Moisture and Runoff in Coastal Northern California, Bulletin of the Amer. Met. Soc., Vol. 14, April 2013, 443-459
Paul Froidevaux, Olivia Martius: Exceptional integrated vapor transport toward orography: an important precursor to severe floods in Switzerland, Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., Vol. 142, Issue 698, July 2016, 1997-2012.
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, Bulletin of the Amer. Met. Soc., Vol. 100, Issue 2, Feb. 2019, 269-289.
Mahlstein, I., Bhend, J., Spirig, Ch., and Martius, O.: Developingan Automated Medium-Range Flood Awareness System for Switzerland Based on Probabilistic Forecasts of Integrated Water Vapor Fluxes, Bulletin of the Amer. Met. Soc., Vol. 34, Dec. 2019, 1759-1776.
David A. Lavers, Richard P. Allan, Eric F. Wood, Gabriele Villarini, David J. Brayshaw, and Andrew J. Wade: Winter floods in Britain are connected to atmospheric rivers, Geophys. Res. Letters, Vol. 38, 2011.