Rare Atmospheric River Caused Record Floods across the Middle East
| dc.contributor.author | Dezfuli, Amin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-22T19:58:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-04-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are responsible for some of the hydroclimatic extremes around the world. Their mechanisms and contribution to flooding in the Middle East are relatively poorly understood. This study shows that the record floods during March 2019 across the Middle East were caused by a powerful AR, originated from the North Atlantic Ocean. Iran, in particular, was substantially affected by the floods. The nearly 9,000-km-long AR propagated across North Africa and the Middle East, and was fed by additional moisture from several other sources on its pathway. Simultaneous presence of a midlatitude system and a subtropical jet facilitated the moisture supply. The AR, as passing over the Zagros Mountains, produced record rainfall induced by the orographic forcing. The resulting floods caused widespread damage to infrastructures and left a death toll of at least 76 in Iran. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This study was supported by Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) National Climate Assessment (NCA) enabling tools funded by NASA and the GMAO Core funding, provided under NASA’s Modeling, Analysis and Prediction (MAP) program. I would also like to thank the editor, Jeff Waldstreicher, and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. | |
| dc.description.uri | https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/101/4/bams-d-19-0247.1.xml | |
| dc.format.extent | 7 pages | |
| dc.genre | journal articles | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m213wf-wah9 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Dezfuli, Amin. “Rare Atmospheric River Caused Record Floods across the Middle East.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101, no. 4 (2020): E394–400. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0247.1. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0247.1 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/40588 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | AMS | |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC GESTAR II | |
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| dc.title | Rare Atmospheric River Caused Record Floods across the Middle East | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3274-8542 |
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