HOURLY DURATION OF PRECIPITATION AT PHILADELPHIA

Hourly precipitation extremes

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Distribution of Hourly Precipitation in Illinois

Is the intensification of precipitation extremes with global warming better detected at hourly than daily resolutions?

Although it has been documented that daily precipitation extremes are increasing worldwide, faster increases may be expected for subdaily extremes. Here after a careful quality control procedure, we compared trends in hourly and daily precipitation extremes using a large network of stations across the United States (U.S.) within the 1950–2011 period. A greater number of significant increasing t...

Relation between Storm Duration and Precipitation Intensity

Indirect downscaling of hourly precipitation based on atmospheric circulation and temperature

The main source of information on future climate conditions are global circulation models (GCMs). While the various GCMs agree on an increase of surface temperature, the predictions for precipitation exhibit high spread among the models, especially in shorter-than-daily temporal resolution. This paper presents a method to predict regional distributions of the hourly rainfall depth based on dail...