Regionally high risk increase for precipitation extreme events under global warming

C Martinez-Villalobos, JD Neelin - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Daily precipitation extremes are projected to intensify with increasing moisture under global
warming following the Clausius-Clapeyron (CC) relationship at about 7%/∘ C. However, this …

Diurnal cycle of precipitation over the tropics and central United States: intercomparison of general circulation models

C Tao, S Xie, HY Ma, P Bechtold, Z Cui… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Diurnal precipitation is a fundamental mode of variability that climate models have difficulty
in accurately simulating. Here the diurnal cycle of precipitation (DCP) in participating climate …

A standardized benchmarking framework to assess downscaled precipitation simulations

RN Isphording, LV Alexander, M Bador… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Presently, there is no standardized framework or metrics identified to assess regional
climate model precipitation output. Because of this, it can be difficult to make a one-to-one …

Evaluating precipitation distributions at regional scales: a benchmarking framework and application to CMIP5 and 6 models

MS Ahn, PA Ullrich, PJ Gleckler, J Lee… - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
As the resolution of global Earth system models increases, regional-scale evaluations are
becoming ever more important. This study presents a framework for quantifying precipitation …

Evaluating large‐storm dominance in high‐resolution GCMs and observations across the western contiguous United States

NR Bjarke, B Livneh, JJ Barsugli… - Earth's …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme precipitation events are projected to increase in frequency across much of the land‐
surface as the global climate warms, but such projections have typically relied on coarse …

Amplifying exploration of regional climate risks: clustering future projections on regionally relevant impact drivers not emission scenarios

FE Buskop, F Sperna-Weiland… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate impacts will continue to evolve over the coming decades, requiring regions
worldwide to obtain actionable climate information. Global Climate Models (GCMs) are often …

Toward robust pattern similarity metric for distributed model evaluation

EB Yorulmaz, E Kartal, MC Demirel - Stochastic Environmental Research …, 2024 - Springer
SPAtial EFficiency (SPAEF) metric is one of the most thoroughly used metrics in hydrologic
community. In this study, our aim is to improve SPAEF by replacing the histogram match …

[HTML][HTML] Land–atmosphere feedbacks weaken the risks of precipitation extremes over Australia in a warming climate

MY Chang, ZY Zuo, L Qiao, KW Zhang, B Liu - Advances in Climate …, 2024 - Elsevier
The importance of land–atmosphere feedbacks on regional precipitation changes has been
recently noted. However, how land–atmosphere feedbacks shape daily precipitation …

Bimodality in simulated precipitation frequency distributions and its relationship with convective parameterizations

MS Ahn, PA Ullrich, J Lee, PJ Gleckler, HY Ma… - npj Climate and …, 2024 - nature.com
Bimodality in precipitation frequency distributions is often evident in atmospheric models, but
rarely in observations. This study i) proposes a metric to objectively quantify the bimodality in …

A Multi-Timescale Evaluation of Global Hydrologic Phenomena Using Observations and Models

NR Bjarke - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Hydrologic extremes occur on multiple timescales, from short-duration floods to multi-year
drought, and have become more frequent and severe across many regions over the past …