Fig. 5: Changes in the contributions of extreme precipitations events.
From: Future Antarctic snow accumulation trend is dominated by atmospheric synoptic-scale events
Relative differences in the contribution of extreme precipitation events (EPEs) to the total precipitation in CESM2 between the 1985–2014 CE and 1850–1879 CE periods (a), and between the 2071–2100 CE and 1985–2014 CE periods (b). Here, EPEs follow the definition of ref. 20: they correspond to the events for which the total daily precipitation is higher than the 90th percentile of the entire time series. The computation of the contribution of EPEs is done by calculating the 90th percentiles for each of the three periods (i.e., 1850–1879 CE, 1985–2014 CE and 2071–2100 CE periods) and used to determine the contribution of the EPEs to the total precipitation. See Supplementary Fig. 6 for the same diagnostic using the 95th percentile as threshold.
