One of the major concerns with a potential change in climate is that an increase in extreme
events will occur. Results of observational studies suggest that in many areas that have …

Variations and trends in extreme climate events have only recently received much attention.
Exponentially increasing economic losses, coupled with an increase in deaths due to these …

This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

Considering the importance of climatic variability on availability of water, irrigation demand,
crop yield and other areas of life, an assessment of change detection and trend on monthly …

The objective of this paper is to synthesize the large literature recording changing patterns of
precipitation in the observed data, thus indicating that climate change is already a reality …

Observed changes in intense precipitation (eg, the frequency of very heavy precipitation or
the upper 0.3% of daily precipitation events) have been analyzed for over half of the land …

Observed climate change and variability (for definitions, see the IPCC Glossary, Appendix I)
are considered in this chapter by addressing seven commonly asked questions related to …

Using daily (monthly) rainfall data from 167 (254) stations across West Africa with at least
80% data availability for the 31-year period 1980–2010 and the gridded African Rainfall …

We examined the spatial and temporal variation in precipitation observed daily at 272
weather stations operated by the China Meteorological Administration from 1960 to 2000 …

The trends and epochal variability of southwest monsoon over the country as a whole and
four homogeneous regions are examined using monthly rainfall data (1901–2011) of 640 …