a Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China b Colloge of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China c School of Earth, Atmospher...

Precipitation over India is driven by the Indian monsoon. Although changes in this atmospheric circulation are caused by the differential seasonal diabatic heating of Asia and the Indo-Pacific Ocean, it is so far unknown how global warming influences the monsoon rainfalls regionally. Herein, we present a Miocene pollen flora as the first direct proxy for monsoon over southern India during the M...

One of the key challenges of climate science today is the understanding and prediction of rainfall and other precipitation events [6]. It holds high values for both scientists and policymakers in terms of obtaining novel scientific insight into the processes of precipitation formation, as well as predictions and associated uncertainties which decide future policy decisions based on them. One of...

The distribution of evaporation minus precipitation over the globe and its seasonal variations are estimated from global atmospheric circulation statistics for the period May 1963 to April 1973. Meridional profiles of evaporation minus precipitation over the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, over all oceans combined, and over all continents combined, as well as the total evaporation minus p...

The spatial and temporal variability of net precipitation (precipitation minus evaporation/sublimation) for Antarctica derived from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts operational analyses via the atmospheric moisture budget is assessed in comparison to a variety of glaciological and meteorological observations and datasets. For the 11-yr period 1985–95, the average continent...

Extreme precipitation events in the Peruvian Andes have significant socioeconomic impacts, yet their atmospheric dynamics are poorly understood. Here austral summer (December–March) wet and dry spells and their continentaland large-scale teleconnections are analyzed using reanalysis, gridded, and in situ precipitation data. Dry and wet spells in the Peruvian Andes show a pervasive dipole patter...

Precipitation is one of the primary forcing functions of hydrologic and watershed fate and transport models; however, in light of advances in precipitation estimates across watersheds, data remain highly uncertain. A wide variety of simulated and observed precipitation data are available for use in regional air quality models and watershed fate and transport models. Although these single media ...

The hydrometeorology of the Amazon basin in the ERA-40 reanalysis for 1958–2001 is compared with observations of precipitation, temperature, and streamflow. After 1979, the reanalysis over the Amazon has a small cool bias of the order of 0.35 K, and a small low bias of precipitation of the order of 0.3 mm day . In the early years (1958–72), there is a large upward drift in reanalysis precipitat...

In this work the higher flood events occurred in Brazil from 1979 to 2010 were determined in order to describe the atmospheric circulation patterns associated with them. An analysis was hold in the 23 extreme ones, according to the season (summer/winter) and the region where the event occurred. The main causes identified were the El Nino episodes, Madden-Julian Oscillation, ITCZ and SACZ, besid...