A 20-year satellite-reanalysis-based climatology of extreme precipitation characteristics over the Sinai Peninsula

Soltani, Mohsen; Hamelers, Bert; Mofidi, Abbas; Fletcher, Christopher G.; Staal, Arie; Dekker, Stefan C.; Laux, Patrick; Arnault, Joel; Kunstmann, Harald; van der Hoeven, Ties; Lanters, Maarten

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-931-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-931-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-931-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 5

Research article

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08 Sep 2023

Research article |

| 08 Sep 2023

A 20-year satellite-reanalysis-based climatology of extreme precipitation characteristics over the Sinai Peninsula

Mohsen Soltani, Bert Hamelers, Abbas Mofidi, Christopher G. Fletcher, Arie Staal, Stefan C. Dekker, Patrick Laux, Joel Arnault, Harald Kunstmann, Ties van der Hoeven, and Maarten Lanters

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-931-2023-supplement

Data sets

NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) G. J. Huffman, D. T. Bolvin, D. Braithwaite, K. Hsu, R. Joyce, and P. Xie https://gpm.nasa.gov/

The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project E. Kalnay, M. Kanamitsu, R. Kistler, W. Collins, D. Deaven, L. Gandin et al. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0437:TNYRP>2.0.CO;2}

Model code and software

The ERA5 global reanalysis H. Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, S. Hirahara, S. et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3803

eofs: A Library for EOF Analysis of Meteorological, Oceanographic, and Climate Data A. Dawson https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.122

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The temporal changes and spatial patterns in precipitation events do not show a homogeneous tendency across the Sinai Peninsula. Mediterranean cyclones accompanied by the Red Sea and Persian troughs are responsible for the majority of Sinai's extreme rainfall events. Cyclone tracking captures 156 cyclones (rainfall ≥10 mm d^-1) either formed within or transferred to the Mediterranean basin precipitating over Sinai.