Anthropogenic Influence on Hurricane Dorian’s Extreme Rainfall

• Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Main Authors: Reed, Kevin, Wehner, Michael F., Stansfield, Alyssa M., Zarzycki, Colin M.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Dorian; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1844515; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1844515; https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-20-0160.1

Hurricane Dorian formed on 24 August 2019 from a tropical wave and developed into a Category 5 hurricane on 1 September 2019 before making landfall in the Bahamas (Avila et al. 2020). The impacts on the Bahamas were extreme, including rainfall totals over 0.5 m in the region (Avila et al. 2020). This was on the heels of the recent damaging North Atlantic hurricanes of 2017 and 2018, which impacted various regions with different combinations of hazards (Klotzbach et al. 2018a; Avila 2019).