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Extreme rainfall over land exacerbated by marine heatwaves. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun
Wang H   +5 more
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Heatwave-related extreme rainfall events

2022
<p>Research on heatwave-related impacts typically focusses on risks to health or critical infrastructure. However, since high temperatures are an important element of convection-driven extreme rainfall events that can trigger flash floods, heatwave-induced extreme rainfall events are also important when considering heatwave impacts. Heavy
Christoph Sauter   +3 more
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Extreme Rainfall Events in the Hawaiian Islands

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 2009
AbstractHeavy rainfall and the associated floods occur frequently in the Hawaiian Islands and have caused huge economic losses as well as social problems. Extreme rainfall events in this study are defined by three different methods based on 1) the mean annual number of days on which 24-h accumulation exceeds a given daily rainfall amount, 2) the value ...
Pao-Shin Chu   +3 more
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On the Probability of Extreme Rainfall Events

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 1973
In recent years, the terms, “once-in-a-century” and 100-year, have been attached to various rare and catastrophic events; recent examples are the rains associated with Hurricane Agnes and the 1972 Rapid City storm. The background for the use of these terms is examined from the points of view of both the professional and nonprofessional user.
openaire   +1 more source

Sensitivity and predictability of an extreme rainfall event in Indonesia

2023
The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023)
Doyle, J.   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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