Does storm duration modulate the extreme precipitation-temperature scaling relationship?

Relation between Storm Duration and Precipitation Intensity

Temporal and spatial scaling impacts on extreme precipitation

Convective and stratiform precipitation events have fundamentally different physical causes. Using a radar composite over Germany, this study separates these precipitation types and compares extremes at different spatial and temporal scales, ranging from 1 to 50 km and 5 min to 6 h, respectively. Four main objectives are addressed. First, we investigate extreme precipitation intensities for con...

Future increases in extreme precipitation exceed observed scaling rates

Models and physical reasoning predict that extreme precipitation will increase in a warmer climate due to increased atmospheric humidity. Observational tests using regression analysis have reported a puzzling variety of apparent scaling rates includingstrongrates inmidlatitude locationsbutweakor negative rates in the tropics. Here we analyse daily extreme precipitation events in several Austral...

Changes in 20 th century extreme temperature and precipitation

Extreme changes in stable hydrogen isotopes and precipitation characteristics in a landfalling Pacific storm

[1] With a new automated precipitation collector we measured a remarkable decrease of 51% in the hydrogen isotope ratio (dH) of precipitation over a 60-minute period during the landfall of an extratropical cyclone along the California coast on 21 March 2005. The rapid drop in dH occurred as precipitation generation transitioned from a shallow to a much deeper cloud layer, in accord with synopti...