Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes

HJ Fowler, G Lenderink, AF Prein, S Westra… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Short-duration (1–3 h) rainfall extremes can cause serious damage to societies
through rapidly developing (flash) flooding and are determined by complex, multifaceted …

Compound hydrometeorological extremes: Drivers, mechanisms and methods

W Zhang, M Luo, S Gao, W Chen, V Hari… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Compound extremes pose immense challenges and hazards to communities, and this is
particularly true for compound hydrometeorological extremes associated with deadly floods …

Quantifying CMIP6 model uncertainties in extreme precipitation projections

A John, H Douville, A Ribes, P Yiou - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2022 - Elsevier
Projected changes in precipitation extremes and their uncertainties are evaluated using an
ensemble of global climate models from phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison …

Consistent large‐scale response of hourly extreme precipitation to temperature variation over land

H Ali, HJ Fowler, G Lenderink, E Lewis… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hourly precipitation extremes can intensify with temperature at higher rates than expected
from thermodynamic increases explained by the Clausius‐Clapeyron (CC) relationship (∼ …

Linking total precipitable water to precipitation extremes globally

S Kim, A Sharma, C Wasko, R Nathan - Earth's Future, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between extreme precipitation (EP) and precipitable water (W) is useful to
assess design extremes and speculate on their expected changes with rising global …

[HTML][HTML] Where does the link between atmospheric moisture transport and extreme precipitation matter?

L Gimeno-Sotelo, L Gimeno - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2023 - Elsevier
Atmospheric moisture transport is the primary component of the atmospheric branch of the
water cycle, and its anomalies strongly influence drought and precipitation extremes. We …

Scaling and responses of extreme hourly precipitation in three climate experiments with a convection-permitting model

G Lenderink, H de Vries, HJ Fowler… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It is widely recognized that future rainfall extremes will intensify. This expectation is tied to
the Clausius-Clapeyron (CC) relation, stating that the maximum water vapour content in the …

Resolving inconsistencies in extreme precipitation‐temperature sensitivities

JB Visser, C Wasko, A Sharma… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme precipitation events are intensifying with increasing temperatures. However,
observed extreme precipitation‐temperature sensitivities have been found to vary …

Overview of observed Clausius-Clapeyron scaling of extreme precipitation in midlatitudes

M Martinkova, J Kysely - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an overview of recent observational studies on the Clausius-Clapeyron
precipitation-temperature (PT) scaling in midlatitudes. As the capacity of air to hold moisture …

Eliminating the “hook” in precipitation–temperature scaling

JB Visser, C Wasko, A Sharma, R Nathan - Journal of Climate, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Observational studies of extreme daily and subdaily precipitation–temperature sensitivities
(apparent scaling) aim to provide evidence and improved understanding of how extreme …