What is it about?
We retrieved the multiscale extreme rainfalls in Spain. This work analyzes how they are distributed in Spain and why they occur. It also includes an analysis of the scaling law of those records and proposes a simple methodology to estimate the maximum rainfall for different scales.
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Why is it important?
This work explain the different mechanisms that play a role in an extreme rainfall of a midlatitude country. The record table may be used also as a reference for classification of heavy precipitation events for different temporal scales.
Perspectives
It was very interesting for me to have an idea about the order of magnitude of an extreme rainfall for different scales, and not only the typical 1 hour, 1 day, 1 month. I hope it may be useful for the people who study heavy rainfall case studies to understand how heavy it is compared to the historic maximum.
Sergi Gonzalez
Agencia Estatal de Meteorología
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This page is a summary of: Extreme point rainfall temporal scaling: a long term (1805-2014) regional and seasonal analysis in Spain, International Journal of Climatology, June 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/joc.5144.
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