Unveiling four decades of intensifying precipitation from tropical cyclones using satellite measurements.

ABSTRACT: Increases in precipitation rates and volumes from tropical cyclones (TCs) caused by anthropogenic warming are predicted by climate modeling studies and have been identified in several high intensity storms occurring over the last half decade. However, it has been difficult to detect historical trends in TC precipitation at time scales long enough to overcome natural climate variability because of limitations in existing precipitation observations. We introduce an experimental global high-resolution climate data record of precipitation produced using infrared satellite imagery and corrected at the monthly scale by a gauge-derived product that shows generally good performance during two hurricane case studies but estimates higher mean precipitation rates in the tropics than the evaluation da

SUBMITTER: Shearer EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9363467 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature