Rapid decadal convective precipitation increase over Eurasia during the last three decades of the 20th century.

ABSTRACT: Convective precipitation-localized, short-lived, intense, and sometimes violent-is at the root of challenges associated with observation, simulation, and prediction of precipitation. The understanding of long-term changes in convective precipitation characteristics and their role in precipitation extremes and intensity over extratropical regions are imperative to future water resource management; however, they have been studied very little. We show that annual convective precipitation total has been increasing astonishingly fast, at a rate of 18.4%/°C, of which 16% is attributable to an increase in convective precipitation occurrence, and 2.4% is attributable to increased daily intensity based on the 35 years of two (combined) historical data sets of 3-hourly synoptic observations and dail

SUBMITTER: Ye H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5266478 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature