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The paradoxical increase of Mediterranean extreme daily rainfall in spite of decrease in total values
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Earlier reports indicated some specific isolated regions exhibiting a paradoxical increase of extreme rainfall in spite of decrease in the totals. Here, we conduct a coherent study of the full‐scale of daily rainfall categories over a relatively large subtropical region‐ the Mediterranean‐ in order to assess whether this paradoxical behavior is real and its extent. We show that the torrential rainfall in Italy exceeding 128 mm/d has increased percentage‐wise by a factor of 4 during 1951–1995 with strong peaks in El‐Nino years. In Spain, extreme categories at both tails of the distribution (light: 0‐4 mm/d and heavy/torrential: 64 mm/d and up) increased significantly. No significant trends were found in Israel and Cyprus. The consequent redistribution of the daily rainfall categories ‐torrential/heavy against the moderate/light intensities ‐ is of utmost interest particularly in the semi‐arid sub‐tropical regions for purposes of water management, soil erosion and flash floods impacts.
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- Alpert, P., Ben‐Gai, T., Baharad, A., Benjamini, Y., Yekutieli, D., Colacino, M., Diodato, L., Ramis, C., Homar, V., Romero, R., Michaelides, S., & Manes, A.
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- Geophysical Research Letters
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- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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- 2002-06
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- 29
- Issue
- 11
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- 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8007
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- W2126111550
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- 568
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 8.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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