Effect of seasonal adjustment on empirical rainfall distributions

Large-scale atmospheric patterns associated with mesoscale features leading to extreme precipitation events in Northwestern Italy

“…Hydrologic studies have principally focused on statistics of samples [13,14]. Ideally hydrometeorological studies should merge these two approaches in order to better explain the phenomenology of extreme precipitation events across regions with complex topography [33,4,23,16,21,3,17].…”

Extreme rainfall events: Learning from raingauge time series

“…doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.11.050 moisture through orographic precipitation mechanisms (Smith and Barstad, 2004). Therefore, it is not surprising how the monitoring and the analysis of precipitation, intended to get a better understanding of the underlying physical processes, have always been central to meteorology and climatology in areas with complex orography (e.g., Buzzi and Foschini, 2000;Garrido et al, 1994;Obled et al, 2002). So far literature has highlighted how, despite the fact that local regions are close to one another when compared to the scale of the synoptic domain, differences exist in the large-scale circulation, interacting with the meso-scale local features, thus triggering heavy precipitation events (Mamassis and Koutsoyiannis, 1996;Rotunno and Ferretti, 2001;Rudari et al, 2004Rudari et al, , 2005.…”