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 …

Convection‐permitting modeling with regional climate models: Latest developments and next steps

P Lucas‐Picher, D Argüeso, E Brisson… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Approximately 10 years ago, convection‐permitting regional climate models (CPRCMs)
emerged as a promising computationally affordable tool to produce fine resolution (1–4 km) …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

D Jacob, C Teichmann, S Sobolowski… - Regional environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The European CORDEX (EURO-CORDEX) initiative is a large voluntary effort that
seeks to advance regional climate and Earth system science in Europe. As part of the World …

Increased flood exposure due to climate change and population growth in the United States

DL Swain, OEJ Wing, PD Bates, JM Done… - Earth's …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation extremes are increasing globally due to anthropogenic climate change.
However, there remains uncertainty regarding impacts upon flood occurrence and …

Increased rainfall volume from future convective storms in the US

AF Prein, C Liu, K Ikeda, SB Trier… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Mesoscale convective system (MCS)-organized convective storms with a size of~ 100 km
have increased in frequency and intensity in the USA over the past 35 years, causing …

Seasonality, intensity, and duration of rainfall extremes change in a warmer climate

Y Moustakis, SM Papalexiou, CJ Onof… - Earth's Future, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation extremes are expected to intensify under climate change with consequent
impacts in flooding and ecosystem functioning. Here we use station data and high …

Incorporating non-stationarity from climate change into rainfall frequency and intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves

KE Schlef, KE Kunkel, C Brown, Y Demissie… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves–sometimes also called precipitation
frequency estimates–are used to design urban drainage systems for stormwater control and …

Structure and evolution of mesoscale convective systems: Sensitivity to cloud microphysics in convection‐permitting simulations over the United States

Z Feng, LR Leung, RA Houze Jr… - Journal of Advances …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Regional climate simulations over the continental United States were conducted for the
2011 warm season using the Weather Research and Forecasting model at convection …

Amazon windthrow disturbances are likely to increase with storm frequency under global warming

Y Feng, RI Negrón-Juárez, DM Romps… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Forest mortality caused by convective storms (windthrow) is a major disturbance in the
Amazon. However, the linkage between windthrows at the surface and convective storms in …