The changing character of precipitation

By Kevin E. Trenberth, A. Dai, R. Rasmussen, D. Parsons. 2003

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Modelling nonlinear trend for developing non‐stationary rainfall intensity–duration–frequency curve (2017, background): “However, in recent years, the extreme precipitation events are intensifying due to global climate change (Allen and Ingram, 2002; Trenberth et al., 2003; Emori and Brown, 2005; Tramblay et al., 2012; Cavanaugh et al., 2015; Xu et al., 2015).”
• Improved Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation in E3SM With a Revised Convective Triggering Function (2019, background): “In general, models often rain too frequently at reduced intensity (Dai & Trenberth, 2004; Trenberth et al., 2003).”
• Long-term trends in the atmospheric water vapor content estimated from ground-based GPS data (2008, background): “Typically climate models tend to predict that the average relative humidity is conserved when the temperature changes [Trenberth et al., 2003].”
• A review of the remote sensing of lower tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy cycles (2015, positive): “Thisbecomesevenmorecriticalwhenclouds[Dessler,2010]andprecipitation(includingitsextremes) areincluded[Trenberthetal.,2003;Zolinaetal.,2013],becausetheeffectscriticallydependonmoist adiabaticlapseratesandmoistureconvergencesatthebaseofconvectivesystems.”
• Global water vapor variability and trend from the latest 36 year (1979 to 2014) data of ECMWF and NCEP reanalyses, radiosonde, GPS, and microwave satellite (2016, methodology): “According to the Clausius-Clapeyron equation, the water-holding capacity of the atmosphere increases by about 7% on global domain for every 1 K rise in temperature [Trenberth et al., 2003].”
• Changes in the convective population and thermodynamic environments in convection-permitting regional climate simulations over the United States (2017, background): “Higher global temperatures will lead to increased atmospheric water vapor and thus it might be expected that precipitation will be more intense and longer lasting (Trenberth et al. 2003; Sheffield and Wood 2008; Del Genio and Kovari 2002; Pall et al. 2007; O’Gorman and Schneider 2009; Kendon et al. ”
• Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Distribution of North American Trees (2007, background): “To better understand the potential impacts of the current warming trend, considerable effort has gone into predicting the effect of future climate scenarios on various flora and fauna (Walther et al. 2002, Chambers et al. 2005, Shi et al. 2006).”
• Linking increases in hourly precipitation extremes to atmospheric temperature and moisture changes (2010, methodology): “It is commonly expected that precipitation extremes will increase as the climate warms (Trenberth et al 2003, Pall et al 2007, Groisman et al 2005, Emori and Brown 2005).”
• Detecting change in UK extreme precipitation using results from the climateprediction.net BBC climate change experiment (2010, background): “Precipitation efficiency is controlled by cloud microphysics, entrainment, detrainment, the water holding capacity of the column, and large-scale divergence above the moisture level (Trenberth et al. 2003).”
• Influences of species, latitudes and methodologies on estimates of phenological response to global warming (2007, background): “For biological systems, as important as mean changes in precipitation is a significant shift in patterns of precipitation: rain and snow are falling in fewer, more intense events, causing significant increases in both flood events and in duration of dry periods (Karl et al., 1996; Karl & Knight, 199”
• Climate change and plant regeneration from seed (2011, background): “Also, there is a prospect for fewer but more intense snowfall events with climate change (Trenberth et al., 2003).”
• Performance of NCEPNCAR reanalysis variables in statistical downscaling of daily precipitation (2005, background): “Nevertheless, such circulation fields fail to capture key precipitation mechanisms based on thermodynamics and water vapor content of the atmosphere, which are known to be important factors in the character of precipitation (Trenberth et al. 2003).”