Extreme precipitation events (EPEs) cause frequently flooding with dramatic socioeconomic
impacts in many parts of the world. Previous studies considered two synoptic-scale …

Extreme precipitation can trigger various natural hazards, causing catastrophic losses
worldwide. As global warming accelerates, it is widely acknowledged that extreme …

The size of precipitation systems is an important parameter of precipitation process and
dynamics. This study uses the latest Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for Global …

The Fractions Skill Score (FSS) is a spatial verification measure that is used for assessing
the performance of precipitation forecasts from numerical weather prediction models …

Features in the natural and built environment can be viewed as objects, and an object's
shape provides valuable information about the physical processes that generate those …

Regional heavy precipitation events (RHPEs), with their high intensity, large impact area
and long duration, have tremendous impacts on society and ecosystems. Using a daily …

Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of a Convection-Allowing Ensemble during the Hazardous
Weather Testbed 2009 Spring Experiment. Part I: Development of the Object-Oriented …

One of the major advantages of satellite precipitation estimates is that they can provide a
complete picture of precipitation systems; a difficult task to achieve using sparsely distributed …

The rainfall contributions from precipitation features (PFs) with full spectra of different sizes
and convective intensities over the tropics and subtropics are summarized using 12 yr of …

The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is usually analyzed in terms of the precipitation
field. This study presents a new climatology of the ITCZ based on winds from ERA Interim …