DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50694
论文题名: Observed frequency and intensity of tropical precipitation from instantaneous estimates
作者: Biasutti M. ; Yuter S.E.
刊名: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
ISSN: 21698996
出版年: 2013
卷: 118, 期: 17 起始页码: 9534
结束页码: 9551
语种: 英语
英文关键词: convective processes
; seasonal cycle
; TRMM
; tropical rainfall
Scopus关键词: Global warming
; Rain gages
; Tropics
; Convective precipitation
; Extreme precipitation events
; Precipitation extremes
; Seasonal cycle
; Seasonal distributions
; TRMM
; Tropical rainfall
; Tropical rainfall measuring missions
; Rain
; estimation method
; frequency analysis
; geoaccumulation
; global warming
; observational method
; precipitation (climatology)
; precipitation intensity
; rainfall
; raingauge
; stratiform cloud
; TRMM
; tropical environment
英文摘要: Negative societal impacts can result from intense individual downpours, the accumulation of rainfall over a day or more, or a combination of these. Accumulation is reasonably well captured by daily reporting rain gauges, but rainfall intensity is not. Ten years of data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) are used to describe the spatial and seasonal distributions of instantaneous rainfall intensity with an emphasis on how these differ from the distributions of mean daily accumulation. Over tropical land, the rainy season, when rainfall is most frequent, does not coincide with the highest mean intensity. Rather, intensity peaks just before the rainy season. This offset is most obvious in the pre-onset and post-onset months in monsoon regions and it is also evident in equatorial regions without a well-defined dry and rainy season. Most seasonal variations in rainfall intensity can be explained as parallel variations in the occurrence of convective, relative to stratiform, precipitation. However, regional differences in rainfall intensity are related to differences in the intensity of convection itself. Compared with seasonal changes in intensity over land, variations in convective precipitation fraction over tropical oceans are trivial, and the modest seasonal changes in the intensity of rainfall parallel those of frequency. These findings suggest that studies of precipitation extremes under global warming should (1) explicitly tackle the question of changes in the intensity of rainfall separately from changes in daily rainfall accumulation and (2) consider the different qualities of extreme precipitation events over ocean and over land. Key Points Rain frequency and intensity from TRMM PR Radar describe storm characteristicsOver land, mean conditional rain intensity is largest prior to the rainy seasonExtremes studies should consider land/ocean and daily/subdaily scales separately ©2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. 资助项目: ATM-0544766
; ATM-0908420
; NNX07AD21G
; SES-1048946
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资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/63352
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候减缓与适应
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作者单位: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964-8000, United States; Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
Recommended Citation:
Biasutti M.,Yuter S.E.. Observed frequency and intensity of tropical precipitation from instantaneous estimates[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres,2013-01-01,118(17)