Global warming impact on urban heavy precipitation

抄録

This study investigates how heavy precipitation will change under the global warming effect over two urban agglomerations, Tokyo and Singapore, that are located in different climate backgrounds, up to 2100, using the dynamical downscaling approach with state-of-art regional climate model. We found that heavy precipitation is likely to respond more strongly to warming forcing, which implies a paradigm of "wet gets wetter" in the future. We also found that in the mid-latitude area like Tokyo, the response of heavy precipitation to warming is more sensitive compared with tropical city Singapore.