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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 44, Issue 2, Pages 974-983Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071917
Keywords
hourly precipitation extremes; climate change; trends
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- INTENSE project
- European Research Council [ERC-2013-CoG-617329]
- Wolfson Foundation
- Royal Society [WM140025]
- Royal Society [WM140025] Funding Source: Royal Society
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Although it has been documented that daily precipitation extremes are increasing worldwide, faster increases may be expected for subdaily extremes. Here after a careful quality control procedure, we compared trends in hourly and daily precipitation extremes using a large network of stations across the United States (U.S.) within the 1950-2011 period. A greater number of significant increasing trends in annual and seasonal maximum precipitation were detected from daily extremes, with the primary exception of wintertime. Our results also show that the mean percentage change in annual maximum daily precipitation across the U.S. per global warming degree is similar to 6.9%degrees C-1 (in agreement with the Clausius-Clapeyron rate) while lower sensitivities were observed for hourly extremes, suggesting that changes in the magnitude of subdaily extremes in response to global warming emerge more slowly than those for daily extremes in the climate record.
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