An Inter-comparison Between Reanalysis and Dropsonde Observations of the Total Water Vapor Transport in Individual Atmospheric Rivers

Bin Guan, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Duane Edward Waliser, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and F Martin Ralph, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States