Percentile indices for assessing changes in heavy precipitation events

Schär, Christoph; Ban, Nikolina; Fischer, Erich M.; Rajczak, Jan; Schmidli, Jürg; Frei, Christoph; Giorgi, Filippo; Karl, Thomas R.; Kendon, Elizabeth J.; Tank, Albert M. G. Klein; O’Gorman, Paul A.; Sillmann, Jana; Zhang, Xuebin; Zwiers, Francis W.

doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1669-2

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Percentile indices for assessing changes in heavy precipitation events

2016
By Schär, Christoph ; Ban, Nikolina ; Fischer, Erich M. ; ...
Source: Climatic Change, 137(1-2), 201-216

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Schär, Christoph ; Ban, Nikolina ; Fischer, Erich M. ; Rajczak, Jan ; Schmidli, Jürg ; Frei, Christoph ; Giorgi, Filippo ; Karl, Thomas R. ; Kendon, Elizabeth J. ; Tank, Albert M. G. Klein ; O’Gorman, Paul A. ; Sillmann, Jana ; Zhang, Xuebin ; Zwiers, Francis W. Less -
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Many climate studies assess trends and projections in heavy precipitation events using precipitation percentile (or quantile) indices. Here we investigate three different percentile indices that are commonly used. We demonstrate that these may produce very different results and thus require great care with interpretation. More specifically, consideration is given to two intensity-based indices and one frequency-based index, namely (a) all-day percentiles, (b) wet-day percentiles, and (c) frequency indices based on the exceedance of a percentile threshold.
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