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Understanding rainfall extremes

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Warming induced by greenhouse gases will increase the amount of moisture in the atmosphere, causing heavier rainfall events. Changing atmospheric circulation dynamics are now shown to either amplify or weaken regional increases, contributing to uncertainty in future precipitation extremes.

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  1. Geert Lenderink is at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, The Netherlands,

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  2. Hayley J. Fowler is at the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK,

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Lenderink, G., Fowler, H. Understanding rainfall extremes. Nature Clim Change 7, 391–393 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3305

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