Journal article
A quasi-global assessment of changes in remotely sensed rainfall extremes with temperature
C Wasko, RM Parinussa, A Sharma
Geophysical Research Letters | AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION | Published : 2016
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071354
Abstract
The dependence between extreme rainfall and temperature is used to understand climatic relationships, constrain model predictions, and evaluate future changes to rainfall. Understanding this dependence, however, is limited by the fact that many areas worldwide lack gauged data, particularly at short time scales. The advent of remote sensing allows a new insight into this dependence quasi-globally. Here we address whether remotely sensed daily rainfall and temperature can be used in ungauged areas to understand extreme rainfall scaling with temperature. Using the multisensor Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission 3B42 (v7) rainfall product and remotely sensed air temperature, we examine the spat..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge financial support of the Australian Research Council. TRMM 3B42 rainfall is available at https://pmm.nasa.gov/TRMM and AIRS temperature data at 10.5067/QUA/AIRS/DATA207. The GHCN data set is available in Menne et al., [2015] and temperature data in Berkeley Earth [2015]. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers whose feedback greatly improved the quality of this manuscript.