title: Linkage Between Hourly Precipitation Events and Atmospheric Temperature Changes over China during the Warm Season.
abstract: We investigated changes in the temporospatial features of hourly precipitation during the warm season over mainland China. The frequency and amount of hourly precipitation displayed latitudinal zonation, especially for light and moderate precipitation, which showed successive downward change over time in northeastern and southern China. Changes in the precipitation amount resulted mainly from changes in frequency rather than changes in intensity. We also evaluated the linkage between hourly precipitation and temperature variations and found that hourly precipitation extreme was more sensitive to temperature than other categories of precipitation. A strong dependency of hourly precipitation on temperature occurred at temperatures colder than the median daily temperature; in such cases, regression slopes were greater than the Clausius-Clapeyron (C-C) relation of 7% per degree Celsius. Regression slopes for 31.6%, 59.8%, 96.9%, and 99.1% of all stations were greater than 7% per degree Celsius for the 75th, 90th, 99th, and 99.9th percentiles for precipitation, respectively. The mean regression slopes within the 99.9th percentile of precipitation were three times the C-C rate. Hourly precipitation showed a strong negative relationship with daily maximum temperature and the diurnal temperature range at most stations, whereas the equivalent correlation for daily minimum temperature was weak.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.|Joint Center for Global Change Studies, Beijing 100875, China.
authors.forename: Chiyuan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Miao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.|Joint Center for Global Change Studies, Beijing 100875, China.
authors.forename: Qiaohong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JL, UK.
authors.forename: Alistair G L
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Borthwick
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.|Joint Center for Global Change Studies, Beijing 100875, China.
authors.forename: Qingyun
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Duan