An Intercomparison between Reanalysis and Dropsonde Observations of the Total Water Vapor Transport in Individual Atmospheric Rivers

A recent study presented nearly two decades of airborne atmospheric river (AR) observations and concluded that, on average, an individual AR transports ∼5 × 10⁸ kg s−1 of water vapor. The study here compares those cases to ARs independently identified in reanalyses based on a refined algorithm that...

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