Articles | Volume 9, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-955-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-955-2018
Research article
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09 Jul 2018
Research article |  | 09 Jul 2018

How intermittency affects the rate at which rainfall extremes respond to changes in temperature

Marc Schleiss

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Quality controlled datasets, subhourly NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/uscrn/products/subhourly01/

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The present study aims at explaining how intermittency (i.e., the alternation of dry and rainy periods) affects the rate at which precipitation extremes increase with temperature. Using high-resolution rainfall data from 99 stations in the United States, we show that at scales beyond a few hours, intermittency causes rainfall extremes to deviate substantially from Clausius–Clapeyron. A new model is proposed to better represent and predict these changes across scales.
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