To make the connection between cloud regime and changes in rainfall, we decompose the change in total precipitation ΔP at every location into As a result of the inability of GCMs to represent ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have proposed a new metric that measures how much of a region’s annual rainfall ...

CLIMATEWIRE | At a tiny airport in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts, a weather station feeds precipitation data to a NOAA program that publishes the official precipitation estimates for most ...

PMP is currently defined in the United States as: Theoretically, the greatest depth of precipitation for a given duration that is physically possible over a given size storm area at a particular ...

Typhoon Soudelor dropped over two feet of rainfall when it made landfall in China in early August, and soaked Taiwan. NASA estimated that rainfall using data from the Global Precipitation Measurement ...

April showers are increasingly becoming deluges due to climate change, and May flowers will never be the same. And it's not just April; the warming of the planet is causing a year-round, worldwide ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

Climate change has become a critical factor influencing geomorphological processes and hydrological regimes within river basins. Rising temperatures and ...

Record rainfall spurred Pakistan’s worst flooding in more than a decade, destroying more than a million homes, killing nearly 1,500 people and affecting an additional 33 million people. Now, an ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Critical Assessment of Current PMP Methods." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Modernizing Probable Maximum Precipitation Estimation. Washington, ...