Atmospheric Warming and the Amplification of Precipitation Extremes

By Richard P. Allan, Brian J. Soden. Science, 2008

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Global change effects on humid tropical forests: Evidence for biogeochemical and biodiversity shifts at an ecosystem scale (2016, result): “These recent studies predict greater variability and intensity in tropical precipitation changes relative to older models [Allan and Soden, 2008].”
Can aerosol decrease cloud lifetime? (2009, background): “[16] It is well-established that most clouds evaporate without precipitating [Pidwirny and Kundell, 2008], and that the hydrological cycle will respond to greenhouse warming by increasing the frequency of heavy rainfall and drought events, with a concomitant decrease in the frequency of light precip”
Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate (2010, neutral): “…hand, a number of studies have found that precipitation extremes are increasing, often faster than would be suggested by expected increases in column water vapor [Allan and Soden, 2008; Rajeevan et al., 2008; Lenderink and Van Meijgaard, 2008], although not all studies show this [Huntington, 2006].”
Global alteration of freshwaters: influences on human and environmental well-being (2011, background): “The taxonomy, global richness, and geographic distribution of FW biodiversity are just becoming clear (Balian et al. 2008) at a time when major shifts in water regimes are occurring (Oki and Kanae 2006; Allan and Soden 2008; Milly et al. 2008).”
Impacts of climate change on the amphibians and reptiles of Southeast Asia (2010, background): “Over the next century, Southeast Asia is generally predicted to get warmer and drier with greater variability in rainfall in both time and space (Allen and Ingram 2002; Neelin et al. 2006; Allan and Soden 2008; Fig.”
Flood Detection in Urban Areas Using TerraSAR-X (2010, neutral): “dicted [2].”
Biodiversity, phenology and temporal niche differences between native- and novel exotic-dominated grasslands (2011, methodology): “Irrigation was during the summer to match predictions from global change models that predict increased rainfall in summer months (Allan and Soden, 2008).”
Current changes in tropical precipitation (2010, methodology): “…(Wentz et al 2007) and an amplification of extreme precipitation events in response to atmospheric warming (Lenderink and van Meijgaard 2008, Allan and Soden 2008) as well as a contrasting precipitation response over wet and dry regions of the tropics (Zhang et al 2007, Allan and Soden…”
Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070) (2020, background): “4 billion in 2070 (26), 2) the trend toward meat-intensive diets, and 3) a global climate that tends toward a more vigorous hydrological cycle (27, 28) as discussed above.”
The effect of volcanic eruptions on global precipitation (2013, background): “The slope for internal variability in the control run is predominantly due to ENSO variability [see also Allan and Soden, 2008].”
The physical basis for increases in precipitation extremes in simulations of 21st-century climate change (2009, background): “Indeed, climate models do not correctly reproduce the interannual variability of precipitation extremes in the tropics (10), or the frequency and intensity distribution of precipitation generally (9, 11, 12).”
Hydrological niches in terrestrial plant communities: a review (2015, background): “Global warming is expected to increase the variability of precipitation patterns (Allan & Soden 2008) which is likely to have a greater impact on the composition of vegetation communities than the change in temperature regime itself (Reyer et al. 2013).”
Precipitation Extremes Under Climate Change (2015, background): “ulate the interannual variability in tropical precipitation extremes when compared to observations [2,3], and the disproportionate increases in precipitation extremes compared to other parts of the precipitation distribution that is found in some models – an “extreme mode” in the tropical response t”