Extreme flood response to short-duration convective rainfall in South-West Germany

Contribution of extreme convective storms to rainfall in South America 3 4 5 6

Reconstructing an extreme flood from boulder transport and rainfall–runoff modelling: Wadi Isla, South Sinai, Egypt

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: palaeoflood Sinai rainfall–runoff model boulder transport flash floods The Wadi Isla drainage basin, a narrow steep bedrock canyon and its tributaries, rises near the highest elevations of the Precambrian Sinai massif on the eastern margin of the tectonically active Gulf of Suez rift. The basin area upstream from the mountain front is 191 km 2 and downstream the ...

Using subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) extreme rainfall forecasts for extended-range flood prediction in Australia

Meteorological and hydrological centres around the world are looking at ways to improve their capacity to be able to produce and deliver skilful and reliable forecasts of high-impact extreme rainfall and flooding events on a range of prediction timescales (e.g. sub-daily, daily, multi-week, seasonal). Making improvements to extended-range rainfall and flood forecast models, assessing forecast s...

Consequences to flood management of using different probability distributions to estimate extreme rainfall.

The design of flood defences, such as pumping stations, takes into consideration the predicted return periods of extreme precipitation depths. Most commonly these are estimated by fitting the Generalised Extreme Value (GEV) or the Generalised Pareto (GP) probability distributions to the annual maxima series or to the partial duration series. In this paper, annual maxima series of precipitation ...

Mesoscale Processes Contributing to Extreme Rainfall in a Midlatitude Warm-Season Flash Flood*

Observations and numerical simulations are used to investigate the atmospheric processes that led to extreme rainfall and resultant destructive flash flooding in eastern Missouri on 6–7 May 2000. In this event, a quasi-stationary mesoscale convective system (MCS) developed near a preexisting mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) in a very moist environment that included a strong low-level jet (LLJ)...