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atmospheric river scale: a standalone construct

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Climate extremes

a five-category scale ranking atmospheric rivers by maximum integrated vapor transport and duration, linked to their beneficial or hazardous impacts.

In climate extremes, atmospheric river scale refers to a five-category scale ranking atmospheric rivers by maximum integrated vapor transport and duration, linked to their beneficial or hazardous impacts. This meaning comes from Ralph (2019) in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.[1]

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References

Ralph, F. M., Rutz, J. J., Cordeira, J. M., Dettinger, M., Anderson, M., Reynolds, D., Schick, L. J., & Smallcomb, C. (2019). A Scale to Characterize the Strength and Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100(2), 269-289. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-18-0023.1

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