Abstract Extreme daily precipitation contributes to flooding that can cause significant economic damages, and so is important properly capture in gridded meteorological data sets. This work examines extremes, the mean on wet days, fraction of days two widely used sets over conterminous U.S. (CONUS). Compared underlying station observations, show a 27% reduction annual 1-day maximum precipitatio...

With meteorological data from high altitude surface stations and gridded dataset from NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis, a biennial oscillation over the Eastern Highland Himalayas from 1980 to 1998 is described. This variability concerns air temperature, precipitation, geopotential and wind speed. Evidence is given on the connections between local data and large-scale circulation patterns. The most remarkab...

(Manuscript received June 2010; revised October 2011) K. Fleming1,2, J.L. Awange1,3, M. Kuhn1 and W.E. Featherstone1 1Western Australian Centre for Geodesy and The Institute for Geoscience Research, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia, 6845, Australia. 2Earthquake Risk and Early Warning, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences, D-14467, Potsdam, ...

To improve the understanding of water–vegetation relationships, direct comparative studies assessing the utility of satellite remotely sensed soil moisture, gridded precipitation products, and land surface model output are needed. A case study was investigated for a water-limited, lateral inflow receiving area in northeastern Australia during December 2008 to May 2009. In January 2009, monthly ...

This paper analyses current precipitation rates (PRs) and trends over the Mediterranean Sea region and their response to global climate change scenarios. The analysis uses 0.25° gridded PRs dataset over a 13-year period (1998– 2010) based on remote sensing data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. Future scenarios use the results of six global climate models (GCMs) under four represent...

High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas) data of downscaled model output temperature and precipitation estimates of the ERA-Interim climatic reanalysis to a high resolution of 30 arc sec. The temperature algorithm ...