Joint occurrence of daily temperature and precipitation extreme events over Canada

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dc.contributor.authorTencer, Bárbara
dc.contributor.authorWeaver, Andrew J.
dc.contributor.authorZwiers, Francis W.
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-10T20:27:29Z
dc.date.available2025-04-10T20:27:29Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThe occurrence of individual extremes such as temperature and precipitation extremes can have a great impact on the environment. Agriculture, energy demands, and human health, among other activities, can be affected by extremely high or low temperatures and by extremely dry or wet conditions. The simultaneous or proximate occurrence of both types of extremes could lead to even more profound consequences, however. For example, a dry period can have more negative consequences on agriculture if it is concomitant with or followed by a period of extremely high temperatures. This study analyzes the joint occurrence of very wet conditions and high/low temperature events at stations in Canada. More than one-half of the stations showed a significant positive relationship at the daily time scale between warm nights (daily minimum temperature greater than the 90th percentile) or warm days (daily maximum temperature above the 90th percentile) and heavy-precipitation events (daily precipitation exceeding the 75th percentile), with the greater frequencies found for the east and southwest coasts during autumn and winter. Cold days (daily maximum temperature below the 10th percentile) occur together with intense precipitation more frequently during spring and summer. Simulations by regional climate models show good agreement with observations in the seasonal and spatial variability of the joint distribution, especially when an ensemble of simulations was used.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was funded by NSERC CRD, CREATE, and the Discovery Grant program.
dc.identifier.citationTencer, B., Weaver, A. J., & Zwiers, F. (2014). Joint occurrence of daily temperature and precipitation extreme events over canada. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 53(9), 2148–2162. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0361.1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0361.1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/21820
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherJournal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
dc.subjectPacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)
dc.subject.departmentSchool of Earth and Ocean Sciences
dc.titleJoint occurrence of daily temperature and precipitation extreme events over Canada
dc.typeArticle

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