Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes

HJ Fowler, G Lenderink, AF Prein, S Westra… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Abstract Short-duration (1–3 h) rainfall extremes can cause serious damage to societies
through rapidly develo** (flash) flooding and are determined by complex, multifaceted …

Advances in understanding large‐scale responses of the water cycle to climate change

RP Allan, M Barlow, MP Byrne… - Annals of the New …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Globally, thermodynamics explains an increase in atmospheric water vapor with warming of
around 7%/° C near to the surface. In contrast, global precipitation and evaporation are …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021‏ - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Convection‐permitting modeling with regional climate models: Latest developments and next steps

P Lucas‐Picher, D Argüeso, E Brisson… - Wiley …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Approximately 10 years ago, convection‐permitting regional climate models (CPRCMs)
emerged as a promising computationally affordable tool to produce fine resolution (1–4 km) …

Evidence of shorter more extreme rainfalls and increased flood variability under climate change

C Wasko, R Nathan, L Stein, D O'Shea - Journal of Hydrology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Increases in extreme rainfall intensities as a result of climate change pose a great risk due to
the possibility of increases in pluvial flooding, particularly in urban and developed areas. But …

Climate change and rainfall intensity–duration–frequency curves: Overview of science and guidelines for adaptation

JL Martel, FP Brissette, P Lucas-Picher… - Journal of Hydrologic …, 2021‏ - ascelibrary.org
One of the most important impacts of a future warmer climate is the projected increase in the
frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events. This increasing trend in extreme rainfall is …

Insights from CMIP6 for Australia's future climate

MR Grose, S Narsey, FP Delage, AJ Dowdy… - Earth's …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Outputs from new state‐of‐the‐art climate models under the Coupled Model Inter‐
comparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) promise improvement and enhancement of climate …

Hourly potential evapotranspiration at 0.1 resolution for the global land surface from 1981-present

MB Singer, DT Asfaw, R Rosolem, MO Cuthbert… - Scientific Data, 2021‏ - nature.com
Challenges exist for assessing the impacts of climate and climate change on the
hydrological cycle on local and regional scales, and in turn on water resources, food …

Rarest rainfall events will see the greatest relative increase in magnitude under future climate change

GJ Gründemann, N van de Giesen, L Brunner… - … Earth & Environment, 2022‏ - nature.com
Future rainfall extremes are projected to increase with global warming according to theory
and climate models, but common (annual) and rare (decennial or centennial) extremes …

Urbanization amplified asymmetrical changes of rainfall and exacerbated drought: Analysis over five urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Basin, China

S Huang, Y Gan, X Zhang, N Chen, C Wang… - Earth's …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization has become a prominent anthropogenic activity globally, resulting in the
substantial modification of temperature and rainfall in and around urban areas. Studies also …