A Scale to Characterize the Strength and Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers

@benfrechettewx Paper accepted in late 2018, published in 2019; with work started about 18 months prior. https://t.co/02ZfIK1mLq

RT @RyanVoutilainen: @PeterVogel @bc_news_addict @WestSeaWx @carlreinemann @Cole_Beast @KMacTWN @KGordonGlobalBC @Kusswx Yes, the AR Cat Sc…

@PeterVogel @bc_news_addict @WestSeaWx @carlreinemann @Cole_Beast @KMacTWN @KGordonGlobalBC @Kusswx Yes, the AR Cat Scale was developed by some researchers in the US... read more about it in the Bulletin of the American Met Society https://t.co/7Ed7J1gNd

We find that end-century coastal WUS ARs (each dot in the figure represents a single AR event) primarily shift from being "mostly or primarily beneficial" to "mostly or primarily hazardous" according to the Ralph, Rutz, et al., 2019 AR scale - https://t.co