Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 29, issue 4
Articles | Volume 29, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1201-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1201-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 29, issue 4
Research article
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03 Mar 2025
Research article |  | 03 Mar 2025

Are dependencies of extreme rainfall on humidity more reliable in convection-permitting climate models?

Geert Lenderink, Nikolina Ban, Erwan Brisson, Ségolène Berthou, Virginia Edith Cortés-Hernández, Elizabeth Kendon, Hayley J. Fowler, and Hylke de Vries

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Future extreme rainfall events are influenced by changes in both absolute and relative humidity. The impact of increasing absolute humidity is reasonably well understood, but the role of relative humidity decreases over land remains largely unknown. Using hourly observations from France and the Netherlands, we find that lower relative humidity generally leads to more intense rainfall extremes. This relation is only captured well in recently developed convection-permitting climate models.
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