A storyline analysis of Hurricane Irma's precipitation under various levels of climate warming

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS(2024)

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Understanding how extreme weather, such as tropical cyclones, will change with future climate warming is an interesting computational challenge. Here, the hindcast approach is used to create different storylines of a particular tropical cyclone, Hurricane Irma (2017). Using the community atmosphere model, we explore how Irma's precipitation would change under various levels of climate warming. Analysis is focused on a 48 h period where the simulated hurricane tracks reasonably represent Irma's observed track. Under future scenarios of 2 K, 3 K, and 4 K global average surface temperature increase above pre-industrial levels, the mean 3-hourly rainfall rates in the simulated storms increase by 3-7% K-1 compared to present. This change increases in magnitude for the 95th and 99th percentile 3-hourly rates, which intensify by 10-13% K-1 and 17-21% K-1, respectively. Over Florida, the simulated mean rainfall accumulations increase by 16-26% K-1, with local maxima increasing by 18-43% K-1. All percent changes increase monotonically with warming level.
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tropical cyclones,precipitation,extremes,storylines,climate change
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