Prof Hayley Fowler recently visited the University of New South Wales, the University of Wollongong and the University of Adelaide and gave a series of seminars on ‘Understanding changes in short-duration heavy rainfall under global warming’. During the visit she also consulted with a number of colleagues. Discussions included how we might improve understanding of changes in extreme precipitation in tropical SE Asia using state-of-the-art model simulations and sub-daily precipitation observations collected by the INTENSE project. This includes examining the differences in trends and the scaling of extreme rainfall with temperature between urban and rural areas. A PhD student currently visiting Newcastle from Beijing Normal University has begun to look at this in the observational record.
During the visit Hayley also identified new contacts for the collection of sub-daily data in South America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe (and other countries) and developed collaborations for the production of sub-daily rainfall indices. Further discussions included the multi-scaling behaviour of IFD curves. Hayley also discussed a plan of research to connect a global river flow dataset with the INTENSE sub-daily rainfall extremes dataset. This will be facilitated by a visiting PhD student from the University of Adelaide.
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