The Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) is sensitive to short-term extreme meteorological events that can leave long-term impacts on the continent's surface mass balance (SMB). We investigate of atmospheric rivers (ARs) AIS precipitation budget using an AR detection algorithm and a regional climate model (Modèle Atmosphérique Régional) from 1980 2018. While ARs their associated vapor transport are relati...

We analyzed three kinds of information to evaluate the potential of forests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to retain the nitrogen in atmospheric deposition. Long-term (13:~) measurements of nitrogen in precipitation and stream discharge for one forested watershed in the Inner Coastal Plain showed consistently high nitrogen retention. Annual wet precipitation deposited an averagk of U.4 kg N/ha...

The eastern North American sea level pressure dipole (ENA) pattern is a recently identified teleconnection pattern that has been shown to influence mid-Atlantic United States (U.S.) streamflow variability. Because the pattern was only recently identified, its impacts on U.S. precipitation and estuaries on daily to seasonal timescales is unknown. Thus, this paper presents the first seasonal inve...

Article history: Received 6 May 2015 Received in revised form 16 March 2016 Accepted 19 March 2016 Available online 21 March 2016 Many studies of Quaternary climatemake use of terrestrial stable isotope records which are interpreted based on seasonal patterns of stable isotopes in modern precipitation. Multi-decade records of isotopes in rainfall allow testing of the assumed behavior of isotope...

*Correspondence: Ricardo M. Trigo, Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Ed C8, Piso 3, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal e-mail: [email protected] The first week of December 1876 was marked by extreme weather conditions that affected the south-western sector of the Iberian Peninsula (IP), leading to an all-time record flow in two large international rive...

In Germany, spatial structures of precipitation are mainly determined by the orography and its position in relation to the sea. This is not only the case for long-term means of precipitation sums (Klein and Menz 2003), but holds true for heavy precipitation as well, as shown on the basis of the frequency of daily sums of 10 mm and more (Gerstengarbe and Werner 2009). As visualized in Fig. 1, la...

[1] Groundwater is an important component of the hydrologic cycle, and its anomaly will result in variations of soil moisture, water, and energy balances between the land surface and atmosphere, which ultimately influence climate. In this study, we implement a groundwater model into the regional climate model RegCM3, which is called RegCM3_GW, and investigate the effects of water table dynamics...