Climatic and altitudinal controls on rainfall extremes and their temporal changes in data-sparse tropical regions

• Published in: Journal of hydrology (Amsterdam) Vol. 612; p. 128090
• Main Authors: Amponsah, William, Dallan, Eleonora, Nikolopoulos, Efthymios I., Marra, Francesco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.09.2022
• Subjects: altitude; climate change; ecology; Extreme daily rainfall; Ghana; hydrology; insurance; latitude; livelihood; Ordinary events; rain; rain gauges; Simplified MEV; Sub-Saharan Africa; Trend analysis; uncertainty; Volta River; watersheds; Weibull statistics; Ghana; Ordinary events; Simplified MEV; Volta River; Trend analysis; Extreme daily rainfall; Ghana; Sub-Saharan Africa

•We used the Simplified MEV to model extreme rainfall quantiles in tropical regions.•Weibull distribution well approximates the tail of daily rainfall distribution.•Statistical parameters and rainfall quantiles significantly depend on latitude.•Homogeneous patterns in regional temporal trends are re...