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- Title
Estimation of Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Frequency in the United States.
- Authors
Feldmann, Monika; Emanuel, Kerry; Zhu, Laiyin; Lohmann, Ulrike
- Abstract
Tropical cyclones pose a significant flood risk to vast land regions in their path because of extreme precipitation. Thus it is imperative to quantitatively assess this risk. This study compares exceedance frequencies of tropical cyclone precipitation derived from two independent observational datasets with those estimated using a tropical cyclone rainfall algorithm applied to large sets of synthetic tropical cyclones. The modeled rainfall compares reasonably well to observed rainfall across much of the southern United States but does less well in the mid-Atlantic states. Possible causes of this disparity are discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RAINFALL frequencies; TROPICAL cyclones; FLOOD risk; METEOROLOGICAL precipitation; RAINFALL
- Publication
Journal of Applied Meteorology & Climatology, 2019, Vol 58, Issue 8, p1853
- ISSN
1558-8424
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/JAMC-D-19-0011.1