The objective of this research is to design, perform, and analyze climate model simulations of anthropogenic influences on extreme precipitation events associated with atmospheric rivers and extratropical cyclones impacting the San Francisco Bay Area.
Funded by the City and County of San Francisco and San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)
- PI: Patricola (Berkeley Lab / Iowa State Univ.), co-PI: M.F. Wehner (Berkeley Lab)
- $250,000
- Project period: 10/17/2018 – 6/15/2021
- Publications:
- Patricola, C. M., Wehner, M. F., Bercos-Hickey, E., Maciel, F. V., May, C., Mak, M., Yip, O., Roche, A., & Leal, S. (2022). Future Changes in Extreme Precipitation over the San Francisco Bay Area: Dependence on Atmospheric River and Extratropical Cyclone Events, Weather and Climate Extremes, 36, 100440.
- Research highlight
- Media release: https://sfpuc.org/about-us/news/san-francisco-and-bay-area-could-see-37…