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Abstract

Historical in situ sub-daily rainfall observations are essential for the understanding of short-duration rainfall extremes but records are typically not readily accessible and data are often subject to errors and inhomogeneities. Furthermore, these events are poorly quantified in projections of future climate change making adaptation to the risk of flash flooding problematic. Consequently, knowledge of the processes contributing to intense, short-duration rainfall is less complete compared with those on daily timescales. The INTENSE project is addressing this global challenge by undertaking a data collection initiative that is coupled with advances in high-resolution climate modelling to better understand key processes and likely future change. The project has so far acquired data from over 23 000 rain gauges for its global sub-daily rainfall dataset (GSDR) and has provided evidence of an intensification of hourly extremes over the US. Studies of these observations, combined with model simulations, will continue to advance our understanding of the role of local-scale thermodynamics and large-scale atmospheric circulation in the generation of these events and how these might change in the future.

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Title
The INTENSE project: using observations and models to understand the past, present and future of sub-daily rainfall extremes
Author
Blenkinsop, Stephen 1 ; Fowler, Hayley J 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Barbero, Renaud 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Chan, Steven C 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Guerreiro, Selma B 1 ; Kendon, Elizabeth 3 ; Lenderink, Geert 4 ; Lewis, Elizabeth 1 ; Xiao-Feng, Li 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Westra, Seth 5 ; Alexander, Lisa 6 ; Allan, Richard P 7   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Berg, Peter 8 ; Dunn, Robert J H 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ekström, Marie 9 ; Evans, Jason P 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Holland, Greg 10 ; Jones, Richard 3 ; Kjellström, Erik 8   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Klein-Tank, Albert 4 ; Lettenmaier, Dennis 11 ; Mishra, Vimal 12   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Prein, Andreas F 10 ; Sheffield, Justin 13 ; Tye, Mari R 10   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 
 National Research Institute of Science & Technology for Environment & Agriculture, Aix-en-Provence, France 
 Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK 
 Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, the Netherlands 
 School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia 
 Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 
 Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK 
 Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden 
 School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 
10  National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA 
11  Department of Geography, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA 
12  Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, India 
13  Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK 
Pages
117-126
Publication year
2018
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
ISSN
19920628
e-ISSN
19920636
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2164577299
Copyright
© 2018. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.