Sentences with phrase «large daily precipitation»

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It should be remembered that in the early part of the 20th century, a large number (perhaps majority) of the sites recording daily temperatures and precipitation were farming communities.

Evidence that extreme precipitation is increasing is based primarily on analysis1, 2,3 of hourly and daily precipitation observations from the U.S. Cooperative Observer Network, and is supported by observed increases in atmospheric water vapor.4 Recent publications have projected an increase in extreme precipitation events, 1,5 with some areas getting larger increases6 and some getting decreases.7, 2

Similarly, the maximum daily precipitation shows isolated patches across Europe with larger than normal values.

A set of long, nearly complete daily precipitation series for Alaska spanning the latter half of the 20th century has been analyzed for seasonal relationships between variations in mean, heavy, and extreme precipitation and large - scale atmospheric circulation variations at interannual, decadal, and secular timescales.