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Extreme Precipitation Total
The Extreme Precipitation Total index is relevant to agriculture, water management, transport and the urban sector. ... This Index is based on daily precipitation and is part of the Extreme Precipitation Hazard type of the Wet and Dry category of the classification. ... The index gives the total precipitation on all days with heavy precipitation, defined as exceeding the 95th percentile of daily precipitation over the reference period. ...
26 Sep 2024
Topics: Climate change adaptation
Extreme Precipitation Days
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4 Apr 2024
Topics: Various other issues
Total Precipitation
Precipitation is an essential climate variable making the Total Precipitation a fundamental index for following climate variability and change. ... Definition The cumulated precipitation over a period (mm/period). ... Related information also be found in other sections of the EEA site: The Index based interactive EEA report: Wet and dry — mean precipitation ( link ). ...
4 Apr 2023
Topics: Climate change adaptation
Extreme Precipitation Days
The Extreme Precipitation Days index is relevant to agriculture, water management, transport and the urban sector. ... This Index is based on daily precipitation and is part of the Extreme Precipitation Hazard type of the Wet and Dry category of the classification. ... The index gives the number of days in a year with daily total precipitation exceeding the 95th percentile threshold of rainy days of a reference period, here 1981-2010. ...
7 Sep 2023
Topics: Climate change adaptation
Targeted planting for "catching" precipitation
There is some evidence that planting trees on some Mediterranean hillslopes can assist in cloud formation and precipitation. ...
16 Jan 2024
Topics: Water
Maximum Consecutive Five-Day Precipitation
The Maximum Consecutive Five-Day Precipitation index is relevant to agriculture, water management, transport and the urban sector. ... This Index is based on daily precipitation and is part of the Extreme Precipitation Hazard type of the Wet and Dry category of the classification. ... Definition Maximum five days cumulated precipitation (mm). ...
4 Apr 2023
Topics: Climate change adaptation
Meteorological Drought Duration
This Index is based on daily precipitation and is part of the Drought Hazard type of the Wet and Dry category of the classification. ... The index gives the total number of months in a year that experience drought conditions as determined by anomalously low precipitation values based on the 3-month Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI- ... Definition The count of months in a year with anomalously low precipitation conditions based on the 3-month Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI-3) relative to a reference period, here 1981-2010 (month ...
26 Sep 2024
Topics: Climate change adaptation
Extreme precipitation total
The extreme precipitation total index represents the total precipitation on all days with heavy precipitation, defined as exceeding the 99th percentile of daily precipitation over the reference period. ... Therefore, it accounts for both the frequency and magnitude of unusual precipitation events identified with respect to the baseline conditions. ...
20 Jan 2022
Topics: Climate change adaptation
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Frequency of extreme precipitation
The frequency of extreme precipitation refers to the total number of days in a year with total precipitation exceeding the 99th percentile of the daily precipitation values during the reference period. ...
20 Jan 2022
Topics: Climate change adaptation
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Total precipitation year
Total precipitation represents the total amount of precipitation over a given period (e.g., whole year or a season). ...
20 Jan 2022
Topics: Climate change adaptation
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