Large Scale Influences on Summertime Extreme Precipitation in the Northeastern United States.

ABSTRACT: Observations indicate that over the last few decades there has been a statistically significant increase in precipitation in the Northeastern United States and that this can be attributed to an increase in precipitation associated with extreme precipitation events. Here we use a state-of-the-art atmospheric reanalysis to examine such events in detail. Daily extreme precipitation events defined at the 75th and 95th percentile from gridded gauge observations are identified for a selected region within the Northeast. Atmospheric variables from the Modern Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications - Version 2 (MERRA-2) are then composited during these events to illustrate the time evolution of associated synoptic structures, with a focus on vertically integrated water vapor fluxe

SUBMITTER: Marquardt Collow AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5909199 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature