Scaling precipitation extremes with temperature in the Mediterranean: past climate assessment and projection in anthropogenic scenarios

Philippe Drobinski (1) , Nicolas da Silva (1) , Geremy Panthou (2) , Sophie Bastin (3) , Caroline Muller (4) , Bodo Ahrens (5) , Dario Conte (6) , Giorgia Fosser (7) , Filippo Giorgi (8) , Ivan Güttler (9) , Vassiliki Kotroni (10) , Laurent Li (1) , Efrat Morin (11) , Bariş Önol (12) , Pere Quintana Seguí (13) , Raquel Romera (14) , Csaba Zsolt Torma (8)

1 LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539)
2 LSCE - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette]
3 SPACE - LATMOS
4 LadHyX - Laboratoire d'hydrodynamique
5 IAU - Institut für Atmosphäre und Umwelt [Frankfurt/Main]
6 CMCC - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici [Bologna]
7 CNRM - Centre national de recherches météorologiques
8 ICTP - Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics [Trieste]
9 DHMZ - Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service
10 NOA - National Observatory of Athens
11 HUJ - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
12 Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics [Istanbul]
13 OE - Observatori de l'Ebre
14 ICAM - Institute of Environmental Sciences/ Instituto de Ciencias Medioambientales de Toledo

Future climate change projections indicate that many temperature and precipitation extremes become more frequent and intense in a warmer climate on a global scale, and concomitantly the risks of severe impacts to society will increase, calling for proactive adaptation measures. In order to support the adaptation decision making process, information on climate extremes is especially needed on a regional to local scale including time scales from sub-seasons to decades.

Domains: Meteorology; Climatology

Philippe Drobinski, Nicolas da Silva, Geremy Panthou, Sophie Bastin, Caroline Muller, et al.. Scaling precipitation extremes with temperature in the Mediterranean: past climate assessment and projection in anthropogenic scenarios. ICRC-CORDEX 2016, the International Conference on Regional Climate, May 2016, Stockholm, Sweden. ⟨insu-02339051⟩