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 (Chapter 11)

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
This chapter assesses changes in weather and climate extremes on regional and global
scales, including observed changes and their attribution, as well as projected changes. The …

Challenges and outlook for convection-permitting climate modelling

EJ Kendon, AF Prein, CA Senior… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate projections at very high resolution (kilometre-scale grid spacing) are becoming
affordable. These 'convection-permitting'models (CPMs), commonly used for weather …

Empirical estimate of forestation-induced precipitation changes in Europe

R Meier, J Schwaab, SI Seneviratne, M Sprenger… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Land-cover changes can affect the climate by altering the water and energy balance of the
land surface. Numerous modelling studies have indicated that alterations at the land surface …

Towards advancing scientific knowledge of climate change impacts on short-duration rainfall extremes

HJ Fowler, H Ali, RP Allan, N Ban… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A large number of recent studies have aimed at understanding short-duration rainfall
extremes, due to their impacts on flash floods, landslides and debris flows and potential for …

Intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes and implications for flood risk: Current state of the art and future directions

HJ Fowler, C Wasko, AF Prein - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes and implications for flood risk: current state of
the art and future directions | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical …

[HTML][HTML] The intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes due to climate change–Need for a frequent update of intensity–duration–frequency curves

O Tamm, E Saaremäe, K Rahkema, J Jaagus, T Tamm - Climate Services, 2023 - Elsevier
Numerous studies have investigated future changes in extreme precipitation by employing
climate models. However, trends in extreme short-duration (20–180 min) rainfall intensities …

Strong intensification of hourly rainfall extremes by urbanization

Y Li, HJ Fowler, D Argüeso… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although observations and modeling studies show that heavy rainfall is increasing in many
regions, how changes will manifest themselves on sub‐daily timescales remains highly …

Consistent large‐scale response of hourly extreme precipitation to temperature variation over land

H Ali, HJ Fowler, G Lenderink, E Lewis… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hourly precipitation extremes can intensify with temperature at higher rates than expected
from thermodynamic increases explained by the Clausius‐Clapeyron (CC) relationship (∼ …