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This study uses land gauge precipitation records of the Global Historical Climatology Network, version 2, as well as reanalysis data to provide an assessment of the spatial organization of characteristics of precipitation interannual variability. The coefficient of variation, skewness, and short- and long-range dependence of the precipitation variability are analyzed. Among the major inferences is that the coefficient of variation of annual precipitation shows a significant correlation with intra-annual seasonality. Specifically, subyearly precipitation anomalies occurring in locations with pronounced seasonality affect the total yearly amount, imposing a higher variability in the annual precipitation fluctuations. Furthermore, the study illustrates that a positive skewness of the distribution of annual precipitation is a robust property worldwide and its magnitude is related to the coefficient of variation. Additionally, annual precipitation exhibits very weak small-lag autocorrelation. Conversely, the intensity of long-memory–long-range dependence is significantly larger than zero, hinting that organized long-term variations are an important feature of the interannual variability of precipitation.\r\n\r\n","lang":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2026-08-06T09:54:05Z","month":"08","status":"public","article_type":"original","intvolume":"        25","user_id":"ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd","oa_version":"None","quality_controlled":"1","citation":{"ieee":"S. Fatichi, V. Y. Ivanov, and E. Caporali, “Investigating interannual variability of precipitation at the global scale: Is there a connection with seasonality?,” <i>Journal of Climate</i>, vol. 25, no. 16. American Meteorological Society, pp. 5512–5523, 2012.","apa":"Fatichi, S., Ivanov, V. Y., &#38; Caporali, E. (2012). Investigating interannual variability of precipitation at the global scale: Is there a connection with seasonality? <i>Journal of Climate</i>. American Meteorological Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-11-00356.1\">https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-11-00356.1</a>","ista":"Fatichi S, Ivanov VY, Caporali E. 2012. Investigating interannual variability of precipitation at the global scale: Is there a connection with seasonality? Journal of Climate. 25(16), 5512–5523.","ama":"Fatichi S, Ivanov VY, Caporali E. Investigating interannual variability of precipitation at the global scale: Is there a connection with seasonality? <i>Journal of Climate</i>. 2012;25(16):5512-5523. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-11-00356.1\">10.1175/jcli-d-11-00356.1</a>","short":"S. Fatichi, V.Y. Ivanov, E. Caporali, Journal of Climate 25 (2012) 5512–5523.","mla":"Fatichi, Simone, et al. “Investigating Interannual Variability of Precipitation at the Global Scale: Is There a Connection with Seasonality?” <i>Journal of Climate</i>, vol. 25, no. 16, American Meteorological Society, 2012, pp. 5512–23, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-11-00356.1\">10.1175/jcli-d-11-00356.1</a>.","chicago":"Fatichi, Simone, V. Yu. Ivanov, and E. Caporali. “Investigating Interannual Variability of Precipitation at the Global Scale: Is There a Connection with Seasonality?” <i>Journal of Climate</i>. American Meteorological Society, 2012. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-11-00356.1\">https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-11-00356.1</a>."},"OA_type":"closed access","das_tickbox":"1","volume":25,"date_created":"2026-07-27T12:30:24Z","scopus_import":"1","day":"15","publication_status":"published","publisher":"American Meteorological Society","year":"2012","page":"5512-5523","title":"Investigating interannual variability of precipitation at the global scale: Is there a connection with seasonality?","type":"journal_article","issue":"16"},{"publisher":"American Meteorological Society","publication_status":"published","year":"2011","page":"2784-2800","keyword":["Atmospheric Science"],"type":"journal_article","title":"Intensification of precipitation extremes with warming in a cloud-resolving model","issue":"11","citation":{"ieee":"C. J. Muller, P. A. O’Gorman, and L. E. Back, “Intensification of precipitation extremes with warming in a cloud-resolving model,” <i>Journal of Climate</i>, vol. 24, no. 11. American Meteorological Society, pp. 2784–2800, 2011.","chicago":"Muller, Caroline J, Paul A. O’Gorman, and Larissa E. Back. “Intensification of Precipitation Extremes with Warming in a Cloud-Resolving Model.” <i>Journal of Climate</i>. American Meteorological Society, 2011. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1175/2011jcli3876.1\">https://doi.org/10.1175/2011jcli3876.1</a>.","mla":"Muller, Caroline J., et al. “Intensification of Precipitation Extremes with Warming in a Cloud-Resolving Model.” <i>Journal of Climate</i>, vol. 24, no. 11, American Meteorological Society, 2011, pp. 2784–800, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1175/2011jcli3876.1\">10.1175/2011jcli3876.1</a>.","short":"C.J. Muller, P.A. O’Gorman, L.E. Back, Journal of Climate 24 (2011) 2784–2800.","ama":"Muller CJ, O’Gorman PA, Back LE. Intensification of precipitation extremes with warming in a cloud-resolving model. <i>Journal of Climate</i>. 2011;24(11):2784-2800. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1175/2011jcli3876.1\">10.1175/2011jcli3876.1</a>","ista":"Muller CJ, O’Gorman PA, Back LE. 2011. Intensification of precipitation extremes with warming in a cloud-resolving model. Journal of Climate. 24(11), 2784–2800.","apa":"Muller, C. J., O’Gorman, P. A., &#38; Back, L. E. (2011). Intensification of precipitation extremes with warming in a cloud-resolving model. <i>Journal of Climate</i>. American Meteorological Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1175/2011jcli3876.1\">https://doi.org/10.1175/2011jcli3876.1</a>"},"date_created":"2021-02-15T14:39:57Z","volume":24,"main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.1175/2011JCLI3876.1","open_access":"1"}],"day":"01","month":"06","abstract":[{"text":"A cloud-resolving model is used to investigate the effect of warming on high percentiles of precipitation (precipitation extremes) in the idealized setting of radiative-convective equilibrium. While this idealized setting does not allow for several factors that influence precipitation in the tropics, it does allow for an evaluation of the response of precipitation extremes to warming in simulations with resolved rather than parameterized convection. The methodology developed should also be applicable to less idealized simulations.\r\n\r\nModeled precipitation extremes are found to increase in magnitude in response to an increase in sea surface temperature. A dry static energy budget is used to relate the changes in precipitation extremes to changes in atmospheric temperature, vertical velocity, and precipitation efficiency. To first order, the changes in precipitation extremes are captured by changes in the mean temperature structure of the atmosphere. Changes in vertical velocities play a secondary role and tend to weaken the strength of precipitation extremes, despite an intensification of updraft velocities in the upper troposphere. The influence of changes in condensate transports on precipitation extremes is quantified in terms of a precipitation efficiency; it does not change greatly with warming.\r\n\r\nTropical precipitation extremes have previously been found to increase at a greater fractional rate than the amount of atmospheric water vapor in observations of present-day variability and in some climate model simulations with parameterized convection. But the fractional increases in precipitation extremes in the cloud-resolving simulations are comparable in magnitude to those in surface water vapor concentrations (owing to a partial cancellation between dynamical and thermodynamical changes), and are substantially less than the fractional increases in column water vapor.","lang":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2022-01-24T13:52:46Z","user_id":"8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9","oa":1,"intvolume":"        24","article_type":"original","status":"public","quality_controlled":"1","oa_version":"Published Version","_id":"9144","author":[{"last_name":"Muller","first_name":"Caroline J","full_name":"Muller, Caroline J","orcid":"0000-0001-5836-5350","id":"f978ccb0-3f7f-11eb-b193-b0e2bd13182b"},{"full_name":"O’Gorman, Paul A.","first_name":"Paul A.","last_name":"O’Gorman"},{"full_name":"Back, Larissa E.","last_name":"Back","first_name":"Larissa E."}],"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1520-0442"],"issn":["0894-8755"]},"publication":"Journal of Climate","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"doi":"10.1175/2011jcli3876.1","date_published":"2011-06-01T00:00:00Z","article_processing_charge":"No","extern":"1"}]