Observed climatological relationships of extreme daily precipitation events with precipitable water and vertical velocity in the contiguous United States

KE Kunkel, SE Stevens, LE Stevens… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An analysis of 3,104 stations in the United States shows virtually every station exhibits a
positive correlation between precipitable water (PW) and extreme daily precipitation (EP) …

[HTML][HTML] Precipitation extremes: Trends and relationships with average precipitation and precipitable water in the contiguous United States

KE Kunkel, TR Karl, MF Squires, X Yin… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Trends of extreme precipitation (EP) using various combinations of average return intervals
(ARIs) of 1, 2, 5, 10, and 20 years with durations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 30 days were …

Characteristics of long‐duration precipitation events across the United States

DM Brommer, RS Cerveny… - Geophysical Research …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies have indicated that extreme precipitation intensity is increasing over time,
and has been attributed to anthropogenic warming. Generally these studies have limited …

Relationship between hourly extreme precipitation and local air temperature in the United States

V Mishra, JM Wallace… - Geophysical Research …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the relationship between hourly extreme precipitation and daily mean
temperature across the Contiguous United States (CONUS) during the period 1950–2009 …

Trends in precipitation and streamflow in the eastern US: Paradox or perception?

D Small, S Islam, RM Vogel - Geophysical research letters, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Many studies have reported that total precipitation is increasing across the United States
with most of the increase resulting from a positive trend in the upper tail of the daily …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in intense precipitation over the central United States

PY Groisman, RW Knight… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
In examining intense precipitation over the central United States, the authors consider only
days with precipitation when the daily total is above 12.7 mm and focus only on these days …

[HTML][HTML] Climatology of daily precipitation and extreme precipitation events in the northeast United States

L Agel, M Barlow, JH Qian, F Colby… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study examines US Northeast daily precipitation and extreme precipitation
characteristics for the 1979–2008 period, focusing on daily station data. Seasonal and …

Temporal variations of extreme precipitation events in the United States: 1895–2000

KE Kunkel, DR Easterling, K Redmond… - Geophysical research …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
A newly available data set of daily precipitation observations was used to study the temporal
variability of the frequency of short‐duration extreme precipitation events for 1895–2000 in …

Spatial coherence of extreme precipitation events in the northwestern United States

LE Parker, JT Abatzoglou - International Journal of Climatology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The complexity of impacts resulting from extreme precipitation events varies with the spatial
extent of precipitation extremes. Characteristics of precipitation extremes, defined by the top …

Shifts in precipitation accumulation extremes during the warm season over the United States

C Martinez‐Villalobos, JD Neelin - Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation accumulations, integrated over precipitation events in hourly data, are
examined from 1979 to 2013 over the contiguous United States during the warm season …