On the temporal clustering of European extreme precipitation events and its relationship to persistent and transient large-scale atmospheric drivers

• Published in: Weather and Climate Extremes
• Main Authors: Yannick Barton, Pauline Rivoire, Jonathan Koh, Mubashshir Ali S., Jérôme Kopp, Olivia Martius
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Extreme precipitation; Temporal clustering; Serial clustering; General additive model; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Greenland; Gam
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2022.100518; https://doaj.org/article/14b1f6ff2f33452fbed429fe2fa5575b

Extreme precipitation events that occur in close succession can have important societal and economic repercussions. Here we use 42 years of reanalysis data (ERA-5) to investigate the link between Euro-Atlantic large-scale pattern of weather and climate variability and the temporal clustering of extr...