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 …

A review of global precipitation data sets: Data sources, estimation, and intercomparisons

Q Sun, C Miao, Q Duan, H Ashouri… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of the data sources and estimation
methods of 30 currently available global precipitation data sets, including gauge‐based …

Climate change impact on flood and extreme precipitation increases with water availability

H Tabari - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The hydrological cycle is expected to intensify with global warming, which likely increases
the intensity of extreme precipitation events and the risk of flooding. The changes, however …

Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene

OEJ Wing, W Lehman, PD Bates, CC Sampson… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Current flood risk mapping, relying on historical observations, fails to account for increasing
threat under climate change. Incorporating recent developments in inundation modelling …

Recent intensification of wetland methane feedback

Z Zhang, B Poulter, AF Feldman, Q Ying, P Ciais… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
The positive response of wetland methane (CH4) emissions to climate change is an
important yet uncertain Earth-system feedback that amplifies atmospheric CH4 …

Development of an updated global land in situ‐based data set of temperature and precipitation extremes: HadEX3

RJH Dunn, LV Alexander, MG Donat… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present the second update to a data set of gridded land‐based temperature and
precipitation extremes indices: HadEX3. This consists of 17 temperature and 12 precipitation …

Constraining the increased frequency of global precipitation extremes under warming

CW Thackeray, A Hall, J Norris, D Chen - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
A key indicator of climate change is the greater frequency and intensity of precipitation
extremes across much of the globe. In fact, several studies have already documented …

Variability conceals emerging trend in 100yr projections of UK local hourly rainfall extremes

EJ Kendon, EM Fischer, CJ Short - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme precipitation is projected to intensify with warming, but how this will manifest locally
through time is uncertain. Here, we exploit an ensemble of convection-permitting transient …

Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California

DL Swain, B Langenbrunner, JD Neelin… - Nature Climate Change, 2018 - nature.com
Mediterranean climate regimes are particularly susceptible to rapid shifts between drought
and flood—of which, California's rapid transition from record multi-year dryness between …

How fast are the oceans warming?

L Cheng, J Abraham, Z Hausfather, KE Trenberth - Science, 2019 - science.org
Climate change from human activities mainly results from the energy imbalance in Earth's
climate system caused by rising concentrations of heat-trapping gases. About 93% of the …