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 …

Spontaneous aggregation of convective storms

C Muller, D Yang, G Craig, T Cronin… - Annual Review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Idealized simulations of the tropical atmosphere have predicted that clouds can
spontaneously clump together in space, despite perfectly homogeneous settings. This …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of extreme precipitation climate indices and their projected changes for Brazil: From CMIP3 to CMIP6

FJ de Medeiros, CP de Oliveira, A Avila-Diaz - Weather and Climate …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Extreme events usually cause numerous economic and social losses, especially in
vulnerable countries, such as Brazil. Understanding whether the evolution of Earth System …

Are general circulation models obsolete?

V Balaji, F Couvreux, J Deshayes, J Gautrais… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Traditional general circulation models, or GCMs—that is, three-dimensional dynamical
models with unresolved terms represented in equations with tunable parameters—have …

Quasi‐stationary intense rainstorms spread across Europe under climate change

A Kahraman, EJ Kendon, SC Chan… - Geophysical Research …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Under climate change, increases in precipitation extremes are expected due to higher
atmospheric moisture. However, the total precipitation in an event also depends on the …

Amazon windthrow disturbances are likely to increase with storm frequency under global warming

Y Feng, RI Negrón-Juárez, DM Romps… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Forest mortality caused by convective storms (windthrow) is a major disturbance in the
Amazon. However, the linkage between windthrows at the surface and convective storms in …

A global survey of diurnal offshore propagation of rainfall

J Fang, Y Du - Nature Communications, 2022‏ - nature.com
Diurnal rainfall offshore propagation (OP) shapes the timing and intensity of coastal rainfall
and thus impacts both nature and society. Previous OP studies have rarely compared …

Impacts of lake surface temperature on the summer climate over the Great Lakes Region

J Wang, P Xue, W Pringle, Z Yang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The surface of the Great Lakes interacts with the atmosphere, influencing the weather and
climate over the Great Lakes Region (GLR). However, most climate models were not …

Global precipitation system scale increased from 2001 to 2020

Y Zhang, K Wang - Journal of Hydrology, 2023‏ - Elsevier
How precipitation responds to global warming has drawn much interest from the scientific
community. However, as one of the important properties of precipitation, changes in the …

Large-scale dynamics moderate impact-relevant changes to organised convective storms

SC Chan, EJ Kendon, HJ Fowler, A Kahraman… - … Earth & Environment, 2023‏ - nature.com
Larger organised convective storms (mesoscale-convective systems) can lead to major flood
events in Europe. Here we assess end-of-century changes to their characteristics in two …