What is it about?
The precipitation indices allow to analyze the extreme events related to heavy precipitation and evaluate the linkage with indications of agricultural production and droughts. Here we present a comprehensive picture of extreme precipitation across Nepal from 1976 to 2015 based on high-quality daily precipitation observations from 28 precipitation stations spatially distributed across the country.
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Why is it important?
To deal with the effects of climate change, a deeper comprehension of extreme precipitation and its impact on people and ecosystems is needed. Further, it is essential to evaluate the spatiotemporal fluxes in extreme precipitation across several decades to make practical suggestions for the country’s adaptation to climate change and reduction of catastrophe risks such as flood and drought.
Perspectives
I hope this article provides a clearer understanding of changes in magnitudes and trends of extreme precipitation indices in Nepal. We divided the analysis period in two-time frames which represent the pre-developmental and developmental stages of the country.
Manisha Maharjan
Kyoto Daigaku
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This page is a summary of: Use of Indices on Daily Timescales to Study Changes in Extreme Precipitation across Nepal over 40 years (1976‐2015), Earth and Space Science, December 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU),
DOI: 10.1029/2020ea001509.
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