Atmospheric Rivers (ARs)

 

J. C. Fernández-Álvarez, G. Alvarez-Socorro, R. Nieto, L. Gimeno (2026) The 2025–2026 Iberian Atmospheric Rivers Exhibited Moisture Transport Resembling the Early SSP5-8.5 Climate Response, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 53, Issue 18 ; DOI: 10.1029/2026GL123799 [pdf]

T. Braun, S. M. Vallejo-Bernal, N. Marwan, J. Kurths, J. Quaas, A. Díaz-Guilera, L. Gimeno, M. D. Mahecha (2026) Atmospheric river trajectories organise along a global transport network, Earth System Dynamics, Vol. 17, Issue 3 ; DOI: 10.5194/esd-17-695-2026 [pdf]

M. Stojanovic, A. Pérez-Alarcón, R. Sorí, R. Nieto, L. Gimeno (2026) Atmospheric rivers are associated with nine out of every 10 floods in major global river basins, npj Natural Hazards, Vol. 3 ; DOI: 10.1038/s44304-026-00167-x  [pdf]

P. Coll-Hidalgo, L. Gimeno-Sotelo, J. C. Fernández-Álvarez, R. Nieto, L. Gimeno (2026) Future extratropical cyclones with more moisture and fewer associated atmospheric rivers, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, DOI: 10.1038/s41612-025-01307-2 [pdf]

J. Eiras-Barca, J. C. Fernández-Álvarez, G. Alvarez-Socorro, S. Rahimi-Esfarjani, P. Carrasco-Pena, R. Nieto, L. Gimeno (2025) Projected changes in moisture sources and sinks affecting the US East Coast and the Caribbean Sea, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15289 [pdf]

L. Gimeno-Sotelo, E. Bevacqua, J. C. Fernández-Álvarez, D. Barriopedro, J. Zscheischler, L. Gimeno (2024) Projected changes in extreme daily precipitation linked to changes in precipitable water and vertical velocity in CMIP6 models, Atmospheric Research DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2024.107413

L. Gimeno-Sotelo, E. Bevacqua, L. Gimeno (2023) Combinations of drivers that most favor the occurrence of daily precipitation extremes, Atmospheric Research 294, 106959 ; doi: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.106959

J. C. Fernández-Álvarez, A. Pérez-Alarcón, J. Eiras-Barca, A.M. Ramos, S. Rahimi-Esfarjani, R. Nieto, L. Gimeno (2023) Changes in moisture sources of atmospheric rivers landfalling the Iberian Peninsula with WRF-Flexpart, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi: 10.1029/2022JD037612

L. Gimeno-Sotelo, L. Gimeno (2022) Concurrent extreme events of atmospheric moisture transport and continental precipitation: The role of landfalling atmospheric rivers, Atmospheric Research 278, 106356; doi: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106356

L. Gimeno, I. Algarra, J. Eiras-Barca, A.M. Ramos, R. Nieto (2021) Atmospheric river, a term encompassing different meteorological patterns, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water, doi: 10.1002/wat2.1558

J. Eiras-Barca, A.M. Ramos, I. Algarra, M. Vázquez, F. Domínguez, G. Miguez-Macho, R. Nieto, L. Gimeno, J.J. Taboada, F. M. Ralph (2021) European West Coast atmospheric rivers: A scale to characterize strength and impacts, Weather and Climate Extremes 31, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2021.100305

I. Algarra, R. Nieto, A.M. Ramos, J. Eiras-Barca, R.M. Trigo, L. Gimeno (2020) Significant increase of global anomalous moisture uptake feeding landfalling Atmospheric Rivers, Nature Communications 11, 5082, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18876-w

M. Vázquez, I. Algarra, J. Eiras-Barca, A.M. Ramos, R. Nieto, L. Gimeno (2019) Atmospheric Rivers over the Arctic: Lagrangian Characterisation of Their Moisture Sources, Water 11(1), 1-14, doi:10.3390/w11010041

A.M. Ramos, R.C. Blamey, I. Algarra, R. Nieto, L. Gimeno, R. Tomé, C. Reason, R.M. Trigo (2019) From Amazonia to southern Africa: atmospheric moisture transport through low-level jets and atmospheric rivers, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1436(1), 217-230, doi: 10.1111/nyas.13960 

A.M. Ramos, R. Nieto, R. Tomé, L. Gimeno, R.M. Trigo, M.L.R. Liberato, D.A. Lavers (2016) Atmospheric rivers moisture sources from a Lagrangian perspective, Earth System Dynamics, 7, 371-384, doi:10.5194/esd-7-371-2016

L. Gimeno, F. Dominguez, R. Nieto, R.M. Trigo, A. Drumond, C. Reason, A.S. Taschetto, A.M. Ramos, R. Kumar, J. Marengo (2016) Major Mechanisms of Atmospheric Moisture Transport and Their Role in Extreme Precipitation Events, Annual Review of Environment and Resources 41