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). Thi...