@article{fdi:010073662,
  title = {{C}limatology of observed rainfall in {S}outheast {F}rance at the {R}egional {C}limate {M}odel scales},
  author = {{F}roidurot, {S}t{\'e}phanie and {M}olinie, {G}. and {D}iedhiou, {A}rona},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{I}n order to provide convenient data to assess rainfall simulated by {R}egional {C}limate {M}odels, a spatial database (hereafter called {K}-{REF}) has been designed. {T}his database is used to examine climatological features of rainfall in {S}outheast {F}rance, a study region characterized by two mountain ranges of comparable altitude (the {C}{\'e}vennes and the {A}lps foothill) on both sides of the {R}hone valley. {H}ourly records from 1993 to 2013 have been interpolated to a latitude-longitude regular grid and accumulated over 3-h periods in {K}-{REF}. {T}he assessment of {K}-{REF} relatively to the {SAFRAN} daily rainfall reanalysis indicates consistent patterns and magnitudes between the two datasets even though {K}-{REF} fields are smoother. {A} multi-scale analysis of the occurrence and non-zero intensity of rainfall is performed and shows that the maps of the 50th and 95th percentiles of 3- and 24-h rain intensity highlight different patterns. {T}he maxima of the 50th and 95th percentiles are located over plain and mountainous areas respectively. {M}oreover, the location of these maxima is not the same for the 3- and 24-h intensities. {T}o understand these differences between median and intense rainfall on the one hand and between the 3- and 24-h rainfall on the other hand, we analyze the statistical distributions and the space-time structure of occurrence and intensity of the 3-h rainfall in two classes of days, defined as median and intense. {T}his analysis illustrates the influence of two factors on the triggering and the intensity of rain in the region: the solar cycle and the orography. {T}he orographic forcing appears to be quite different for the two ranges of the domain and is much more pronounced over the {C}evennes.},
  keywords = {{P}recipitation ; {M}ulti-scale climatology ; {S}patial analysis ; {M}ountainous ; mediterranean region ; {MED}-{CORDEX} ; {H}y{M}e{X} ; {FRANCE} ; {ZONE} {MEDITERRANEENNE} ; {CEVENNES} ; {PREALPES} ; {RHONE} {VALLEE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{C}limate {D}ynamics},
  volume = {51},
  numero = {3},
  pages = {779--797},
  ISSN = {0930-7575},
  year = {2018},
  DOI = {10.1007/s00382-016-3114-7},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010073662},
}