Based on hourly precipitation data in eastern China in the warm season during 1961–2000,
spatial distributions of frequency for 20 mm h− 1 and 50 mm h− 1 precipitation were …

Compared with daily rainfall amount, hourly rainfall rate represents rainfall intensity and the
rainfall process more accurately, and thus is more suitable for studies of extreme rainfall …

Variations of temperature and precipitation extremes were investigated under the rapid
warming over China since the 1990s. Six percentile-based indices derived from daily …

Hourly rainfall measurements of 1919 national-level meteorological stations from 1981
through 2012 are used to document, for the first time, the climatology of extreme rainfall in …

Instantaneous precipitation can often cause devastating disasters on the Earth's surface.
Continuous increases in extreme precipitation around the world have caused widespread …

An intensive observational hourly precipitation data set from the China Meteorological
Administration was utilized to investigate the changes in precipitation amount, frequency …

Based on daily precipitation data of more than 2000 Chinese stations and more than 50 yr,
we constructed time series of extreme precipitation based on six different indices for each …

Coastal area of China (CAC) is of high ecological vulnerability and extremely sensitive to
global climate change. Based on daily precipitation dataset of 156 station records, spatial …

Using observed precipitation and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction–
National Center for Atmospheric Research reanalysis, the changes in the metrics of the …

Using daily rainfall data at 738 stations in China from 1951 to 2004, and defining the 95th
percentile as the threshold of extreme precipitation for each station, the characteristics of the …