Response of Extreme Precipitating Cell Structures to Atmospheric Warming.

ABSTRACT: With increasing temperatures, it is likely that precipitation extremes increase as well. While, on larger spatial and longer temporal scales, the amplification of rainfall extremes often follows the Clausius-Clapeyron relation, it has been shown that local short-term convective precipitation extremes may well exceed the Clausius-Clapeyron rate of around 6.5%/K. Most studies on this topic have focused exclusively on the intensity aspect, while only few have examined (with contradictory results) how warmer and moister conditions modulate the spatial characteristics of convective precipitation extremes and how these connect to increased intensities. Here we study this relation by using a large eddy simulation model. We simulate one diurnal cycle of heavy convective precipitation activity base

SUBMITTER: Lochbihler K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6774282 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature