14–16 Jun 2021
Europe/Brussels timezone

The use of water vapour products in Atmospheric Rivers Science

15 Jun 2021, 16:45
15m

Speaker

Alexandre M. Ramos (Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa)

Description

The Mediterranean climate is usually characterized by warm and hot summers intermingled with mild and rainy winters.

A common feature shared by all Mediterranean regions is the occurrence of Atmospheric Rivers (ARs). ARs are relatively narrow and elongated filaments of high water vapour transport, which are associated with tropical moisture exports and can lead to intense precipitation episodes. ARs detection techniques use the fields of integrated water vapour (IWV) content or integrated water vapour transport (IVT).

This presentation highlights the need of the use of novel long-term total column water vapour climatologies or/and water vapour profiles in order to better understand the genesis and dynamics of such phenomena.

Primary authors

Alexandre M. Ramos (Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa) Dr David Lavers (ECMWF)

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