Relationship between selected percentiles and return periods of extreme events

Camufo, Dario; Becherini, Francesca; della Valle, Antonio

doi:10.1007/s11600-020-00452-x

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Relationship between selected percentiles and return periods of extreme events

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Camufo Dario , Becherini Francesca , della Valle Antonio

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https://www.springer.com/journal/11600

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10.1007/s11600-020-00452-x

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This paper investigates the relationship between selected percentiles, return periods and the concepts of rare and extreme events in climate and hydrological series, considering both regular and irregular datasets, and discusses the IPCC and WMO indications. IPCC (Annex II: Glossary. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC, Geneva, 2014) establishes that an extreme event should be rare and exceed selected upper and lower thresholds (10th and 90th percentiles); WMO (Guidelines on the defnition and monitoring of extreme weather and climate events-TT-DEWCE WMO 4/14/2016. World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, 2016) suggests thresholds near the ends of the range, but leaves them undetermined. The concept of “rare” relates the extreme events to the time domain and is typically expressed in terms of return period (RP). The key is to fnd the combination between “rare”, percentile and return period. In particular, two crucial items are analysed: (1) how the return period may vary in response to the choice of the threshold, in particular when it is expressed in terms of percentiles; (2) how the choice of producing a regular or irregular dataset may afect the yearly frequency and the related return periods. Some weather variables (e.g. temperature) are regular and recorded at fxed time intervals, while other phenomena (e.g. tornadoes) occur at times. Precipitation may be considered either regular, all-days being characterized by a precipitation amount from 0 (no precipitation) to the top of the range, or irregular (rainy-days only) considering a precipitation day over a selected instrumental or percentile threshold. These two modes of interpreting precipitation include a diferent number of events per year (365 or less) and generate diferent return periods. Every climatic information may be afected by this defnition. The 90th percentile applied to observations with daily frequency produces 10-day return period and the percentiles necessary to get 1 year, 10 years or other return periods are calculated. The general case of events with selected or variable frequencies, and selected percentiles, is also considered with an example of a precipitation series, two-century long.

Słowa kluczowe

extreme events return period temperature record precipitation record time series percentile

ekstremalne wydarzenia okres zwrotu zapis temperatury zapis opadów szereg czasowy percentyl

Wydawca

Instytut Geofizyki PAN
Springer

Czasopismo

Acta Geophysica

Rocznik

2020

Tom

Vol. 68, no. 4

Strony

1201--1211

Opis fizyczny

Bibliogr. 70 poz.

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autor

Camufo Dario

d.camufo@isac.cnr.it

Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Corso Stati Uniti 4, 35127 Padua, Italy

autor

Becherini Francesca

Institute of Polar Sciences (IPS), National Research Council (CNR), Via Torino 155, 3172 Venice Mestre, Italy

autor

della Valle Antonio

Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Corso Stati Uniti 4, 35127 Padua, Italy

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