Indices for climate variability and extremes have been used for a long time, often by
assessing days with temperature or precipitation observations above or below specific …

There is now a large published literature on the strengths and weaknesses of downscaling
methods for different climatic variables, in different regions and seasons. However, little …

Changes in extreme weather and climate events have significant impacts and are among
the most serious challenges to society in co** with a changing climate (CCSP, 2008) …

An analysis of the climate of precipitation extremes as simulated by six European regional
climate models (RCMs) is undertaken in order to describe/quantify future changes and to …

Abstract Regional Climate Models (RCMs) emerged 30 years ago as a transient tool to
provide detailed estimates of meteorological parameters (temperature, precipitation …

Quantification of precipitation extremes is important for flood planning purposes, and a
common measure of extreme events is the r-year return level. We present a method for …

This paper describes the development of a weather generator for use in climate impact
assessments of agricultural and water system management. The generator produces …

We study the influence of station network density on the distributions and trends in indices of
area-average daily precipitation and temperature in the E-OBS high resolution gridded …

Actual projections provided by climate models suggest that the probability of occurrence of
intense rainfall will increase in a future climate due to increasing concentrations of …

Intensity–duration–frequency curves are used extensively in engineering to assess the
return periods of rainfall events. The estimation and use of IDF curves rely on the hypothesis …