Multi-day rainfall trends over the Iberian Peninsula

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 411-423

  Acero, Francisco Javier ^a   Gallego, María Cruz ^a   García, Jośe Agustín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Generalized extreme value distribution; Multi day rainfall series

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; TREND ANALYSIS;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84860495907     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0534-5     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Beguería S, Vicente-Serrano SM, López-Moreno JI, García-Ruiz JM (2009) Annual and seasonal mapping of peak intensity, magnitude and duration of extreme precipitation events across a climatic gradient, northeast Spain. Int J Climatol 29: 1759-1779.
2. Changnon SA, Kunkell KE (1996) Climate-related fluctuations in Midwestern flooding. J Water Resour Plann Manage 121: 326-334.
3. Coles S (2001) An introduction to statistical modelling of extreme values. Springer-Verlag.
4. Davison AC, Rames NI (2000) Local likelihood smoothing of sample extremes. J Royal Stat Soc B 62: 191-208.
5. Esteban-Parra MJ, Rodrigo FS, Castro-Díez Y (1998) Spatial and temporal patterns of precipitation in Spain for the period 1880-1992. Int J Climatol 18: 1557-1574.
6. Frich P, Alexander LV, Della-Marta P, Gleason B, Haylock M, Klein Tank AMG, Peterson T (2002) Observed coherent changes in climatic extremes during the second half of the twentieth century. Clim Res 19: 193-212.
7. Gallego MC, García JA, Vaquero JM (2004) Distribución espacial de índices de frecuencia de precipitación diaria en la Península Ibérica. Fis Tierra 16: 161-174.
8. Gallego MC, García JA, Vaquero JM (2005) The NAO signal in daily rainfall series over the Iberian Peninsula. Clim Res 29: 103-109.
9. Gallego MC, García JA, Vaquero JM, Mateos VL (2006) Changes in frequency and intensity of daily precipitation over the Iberian Peninsula. J Geophys Res 111: D24105. doi: 10. 1029/2006JD007280.
10. García JA, Serrano A, Gallego MC (2002) A spectral analysis of Iberian monthly rainfall. Theor Appl Climatol 71: 77-95.
11. García JA, Gallego MC, Serrano A, Vaquero JM (2007) Trends in block-seasonal extreme rainfall over the Iberian Peninsula in the second half of the twentieth century. J Climate 20: 113-130.
12. Goodess CM, Jones PD (2002) Links between circulation and changes in the characteristics of Iberian rainfall. Int J Climatol 22: 1593-1615.
13. IPCC (2007) Cambio climático 2007: Informe de síntesis. Contribución de los Grupos de trabajo I, II y III al Cuarto Informe de evaluación del Grupo Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre el Cambio Climático. [Equipo de redacción principal: Pachauri, R. K. y Reisinger, A. (directores de la publicación)]. IPCC, Ginebra, Suiza, 104 pp.
14. Katz RW, Parlange MB, Naveau P (2002) Statistics of extremes in hydrology. Adv Water Resour 25: 1287-1304.
15. Kharin VV, Zwiers FW (2000) Changes in extremes in an ensemble of transient climate simulations with a coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM. J Climate 13: 3760-3788.
16. Kharin VV, Zwiers FW (2005) Estimating extremes in transient climate change simulations. J Climate 18: 1156-1173.
17. Kunkell KE (2003) Sea surface temperature forcing of the upward trend in U. S. extreme precipitation. J Geophys Res 108: 1-12.
18. Kunkell KE, Andsager K, Easterling DR (1999) Long-Term in extreme precipitation events over the conterminous United States and Canada. J Climate 12: 2515-2527.
19. Lana X, Serra C, Burgue no A (2003) Trends affecting pluviometric indices at the Fabra observatory (Barcelona, NE Spain) from 1917 to 1999. Int J Climatol 23: 315-332.
20. Lana X, Martínez MD, Serra C, Burgue no A (2004) Spatial and temporal variability of the daily rainfall regime in Catalonia (Northeastern Spain), 1950-2000. Int J Climatol 24: 613-641.
21. Lettenmaier DP, Wood EF, Wallis JR (1994) Hydroclimatological trends in the continental United States, 1948-88. J Climate 7: 586-607.
22. Li Y, Cai W, Campbell E (2005) Statistical modeling of extreme rainfall in southwest Australia. J Climate 18: 852-863.
23. Linés-Escardó A (1970) The climate of the Iberian Peninsula. In: Wallen CC (ed) Climates of the northern and western Europe. Elsevier, pp 195-239.
24. Llasat MC, Barriendos M, Barrera A, Rigo T (2005) Floods in Catalonia (NE Spain) since 14th century. Climatological and meteorological aspects from historical documentary sources and old instrumental records. J Hydrol 313: 32-47.
25. Llasat MC, Puigcerver M (1997) Total rainfall and convective rainfall in Catalonia, Spain. Int J Climatol 17: 1683-1695.
26. Llasat MC, Rigo T, Barriendos M (2003) The 'Montserrat-2000' flashflood event: a comparison with the floods that have occurred in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula since 14th century. Int J Climatol 23: 453-469.
27. López-Moreno JI, Vicente-Serrano SM, Angulo-Martínez M, Beguería S, Kenawy A (2010) Trends in daily precipitation on the northeastern Iberian Peninsula, 1955-2006. Int J Climatol 30: 1026-1041.
28. Martín-Vide J (2004) Spatial distribution of a daily precipitation concentration index in Peninsular Spain. Int J Climatol 24: 959-971.
29. Mateos VL, García JA, Serrano A, Gallego MC (2002) Transfer function modeling of the monthly accumulated rainfall series over the Iberian Peninsula. Atmosfera 15: 237-256.
30. Re M, Barros VR (2009) Extreme rainfalls in SE South America. Clim Change 96: 119-136.
31. Rodrigo FS, Trigo RM (2007) Trends in daily rainfall in the Iberian Peninsula from 1951 to 2002. Int J Climatol 27: 513-529.
32. Rodríguez-Puebla C, Encinas AH, Nieto S, Alonso S (1998) A 30-year (1964-1994) daily rainfall data base for the Spanish Mediterranean regions. Int J Climatol 18: 541-560.
33. Santos JA, Corte-Real J, Leite SM (2005) Weather regimes and their connection to the winter rainfall in Portugal. Int J Climatol 25: 33-50.
34. Sen PK (1968) Estimates of the regression coefficient based on Kendall's tau. J Am Stat Assoc 63: 1379-1389.
35. Serrano A, García JA, Mateos VL, Cancillo ML, Garrido J (1999) Monthly modes of variation of precipitation over the Iberian Peninsula. J Climate 12: 2894-2919.
36. Smith RL (1999) Trends in rainfall extremes. Available on line at http://www. stat. unc. edu/postscript/rs/rx. pdf.
37. Trenberth KE (1998) Atmospheric moisture residence times and cycling: implications for rainfall rates and climate change. Clim Change 39: 667-694.
38. Trenberth KE (1999) Conceptual framework for changes of extremes of the hidrological cycle with climate change. Clim Change 42: 327-339.
39. Trigo RM, DaCamara CC (2000) Circulation weather types and their impact on the precipitation regime in Portugal. Int J Climatol 20: 1559-1581.
40. Wang XL (2003) Detection of undocumented changepoints: a revision on the two-phase regression model. J Climate 16: 3383-3385.
41. Wilks DS (1995) Statistical methods in the atmospheric sciences. Academic, New York.
42. Zhang X, Zwiers FW, Li G (2004) Monte Carlo experiments on the detection of trends in extreme values. J Climate 17: 1945-1952.