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Articles | Volume 2, issue 1
Articles | Volume 2, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-71-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-71-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 2, issue 1
Research article
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01 Feb 2021
Research article |  | 01 Feb 2021

Extreme wet seasons – their definition and relationship with synoptic-scale weather systems

Emmanouil Flaounas, Matthias Röthlisberger, Maxi Boettcher, Michael Sprenger, and Heini Wernli

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In this study we identify the wettest seasons globally and address their meteorological characteristics. We show that in different regions the wettest seasons occur in different times of the year and result from either unusually high frequencies of wet days and/or daily extremes. These high frequencies can be largely attributed to four specific weather systems, especially cyclones. Our analysis uses a thoroughly explained, novel methodology that could also be applied to climate models.
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