A41K:
Extreme Precipitation in Past, Present, and Future Climates I

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Session ID#: 30979

Session Description:
Precipitation extremes, including heavy snowfall and rainfall, may occur on different time scales ranging from minutes, days to seasons. These extremes can be associated with severe impacts such as flooding, but are also important for water supply as individual events can substantially raise the levels of water reservoirs. This session will focus on precipitation extremes, including their driving dynamic and thermodynamic processes, external drivers, impacts, statistical properties, and changes in their occurrence related to climate variability and climate change.
Therefore contributions are invited that investigate precipitation extremes and their impacts under past, present and future climate conditions. This includes studies that aim to understand individual events, the spatial and temporal variability in the occurrence of precipitation extremes, and long term changes, based on observational data and climate models including atmospheric models at very high resolution. Contributions are also invited that link precipitation extremes with environmental and socio-economic impacts.
Primary Convener:  Markus Donat, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona, Spain
Conveners:  Paul A O'Gorman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and Erich M Fischer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Chairs:  Markus Donat, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Paul A O'Gorman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Markus Donat, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1854 Precipitation [HYDROLOGY]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3354 Precipitation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The uneven nature of daily precipitation and its change (Invited) (237593)
Angeline G Pendergrass, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States and Reto Knutti, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Increasing climate whiplash in 21st century California (208050)
Daniel L Swain, University of California Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, United States, Baird Langenbrunner, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, J David Neelin, University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Alexander D Hall, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
West Pacific Forcing of Atmospheric River Events in the North Pacific and the End of California's Recent Drought (300169)
Jonathan Mitchell, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences; Department of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Qinghua Ding, University of California, Santa Barbara, Geography and Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, United States
Attribution of Extreme Rainfall from Landfalling Tropical Cyclones to Climate Change for the Eastern United States (275788)
Dr. Maofeng Liu, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, Miami, FL, United States, Long Yang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, James A Smith, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Gabriel A Vecchi, Princeton University, Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
Investigating the Spatial Characteristics of Extreme Precipitation over the US (257833)
Dr. Danielle E Touma, PhD, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States, Anna M Michalak, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, United States, Daniel L Swain, University of California Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, United States and Noah S Diffenbaugh, Stanford University, Earth System Science and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, United States
Shifts in Summertime Precipitation Accumulation Distributions over the US (260993)
Cristian Martinez-Villalobos, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and J David Neelin, University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
A global gridded dataset of daily precipitation going back to 1950, ideal for analysing precipitation extremes (272354)
Steefan Contractor, University of New South Wales, Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, School of Maths and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Markus Donat, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Lisa Alexander, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Sydney, Australia
Variations/Changes in Daily Precipitation Extremes Derived from Satellite-Based Products (252771)
Guojun Gu, ESSIC, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Robert F Adler, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States

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