Journal article
Extreme rainfall in New Zealand and its association with Atmospheric Rivers
Kimberley J Reid, Suzanne M Rosier, Luke J Harrington, Andrew D King, Todd P Lane
Environmental Research Letters | Institute of Physics (IoP) | Published : 2021
Abstract
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow and elongated regions of enhanced horizontal water vapour transport. Considerable research on understanding Northern Hemisphere ARs and their relationship with extreme precipitation has shown that ARs have a strong association with heavy rainfall and flooding. While there has been very little work on ARs in the Southern Hemisphere, global climatologies suggest that ARs are equally as common in both hemispheres. New Zealand in particular is located in a region of high AR frequency. This study aims to test the hypothesis that ARs play a significant role in heavy precipitation and flooding events in New Zealand. We used a recently developed AR identification ..
View full abstractRelated Projects (2)
Grants
Awarded by Australian Research Council (ARC)
Awarded by ARC
Awarded by ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes
Funding Acknowledgements
The work of K J Reid was funded by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship and the Australian Research Council (ARC; DE180100638), the work of A D King was funded by the ARC (DE180100638), and the work of T P Lane was funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CE170100023). S M Rosier was supported by funds from the New Zealand government via a NIWA Climate, Atmosphere and Hazards SSIF programme. L J Harrington and S M Rosier were supported by the New Zealand MBIE Endeavour Fund Whakahura programme. We would like to acknowledge high-performance computing support from Cheyenne (doi:10.5065/D6RX99HX) provided by NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.