Cold Pool Dynamics Shape the Response of Extreme Rainfall Events to Climate Change.

ABSTRACT: There is increasing evidence that local rainfall extremes can increase with warming at a higher rate than expected from the Clausius-Clapeyron (CC) relation. The exact mechanisms behind this super-CC scaling phenomenon are still unsolved. Recent studies highlight invigorated local dynamics as a contributor to enhanced precipitation rates with warming. Here, cold pools play an important role in the process of organization and deepening of convective clouds. Another known effect of cold pools is the amplification of low-level moisture variability. Yet, how these processes respond to climatic warming and how they relate to enhanced precipitation rates remains largely unanswered. Unlike other studies which use rather simple approaches mimicking climate change, we present a much more comprehens

SUBMITTER: Lochbihler K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9285889 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature