Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Published September 12, 2025 | Version v1.0
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PIKART: A Comprehensive Global Catalog of Atmospheric Rivers

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  • 2. ROR icon Leipzig University
  • 3. ROR icon University of Potsdam

Description

The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Atmospheric River Trajectories (PIKART) catalog records atmospheric rivers globally, from 1940 to 2023, at 0.5° spatial resolution and 6-hour temporal resolution. It was introduced in the following publication:

Vallejo‐Bernal, S. M., Braun, T., Marwan, N., & Kurths, J. (2025). PIKART: A comprehensive global catalog of atmospheric rivers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(15), e2024JD041869. DOI: 10.1029/2024JD041869

PIKART's algorithm is coded in Python and Bash and compiled on Foote, the high-performance computer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

This repository contains the scripts to compile version 1.0 of PIKART.

Files

PIKART-Catalog/PIKART-algorithm-v1.0.zip

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Additional details

Additional titles

Subtitle
Atmospheric River Identification Tool (ARDT)

Related works

Is published in
Publication: 10.1029/2024JD041869 (DOI)
Is supplement to
Software: https://github.com/PIKART-Catalog/PIKART-algorithm/tree/v1.0 (URL)

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/PIKART-Catalog/PIKART-algorithm
Programming language
Python, Shell
Development Status
Active