PMP is currently defined in the United States as: Theoretically, the greatest depth of precipitation for a given duration that is physically possible over a given size storm area at a particular ...

In a new study, scientists from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the University of Padova analyzed data from nearly 300 mountain weather stations. Intense, short-lived summer downpours are ...

James A. Smith (Chair) is Research Scientist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. He joined Princeton University in 1990 after ...

The Commerce Department has indefinitely suspended work on a tool to help communities predict how rising global temperatures will alter the frequency of extreme rainfall, according to three current ...