"Rainfall: Extremes, Distribution and Properties" ed. by John Abbot, Andrew Hammond

This book describes aspects of rainfall including the extremes, distribution and properties.

The introductory chapter focusses on drought and flooding rains over Australia, placing extreme rainfall events from recent decades into a historical context using reconstructions from proxy data. The next three chapters focus on distribution and impacts of rainfall. The first of these chapters presents a statistical analysis of rainfall patterns for Jeddah City and considers future impacts. The second examines rainfall in the context of impacts, vulnerability and climate change in eastern Africa. The third examines extreme rainfall and drought in the Asia-Pacific, through application of monitoring from space. The final chapters focus on properties of rain, one examining aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions, while another considers the chemical nature of individual size-resolved raindrops.

Contents
1.Introductory Chapter: Australia—A Land of Drought and Flooding Rain
2.Statistical Analysis of Rainfall Patterns in Jeddah City, KSA: Future Impacts
3.A Novel Assessment of the Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation of Climate Change in Eastern Africa
4.WMO Space-Based Weather and Climate Extremes Monitoring Demonstration Project (SEMDP): First Outcomes of Regional Cooperation on Drought and Heavy Precipitation Monitoring for Australia and Southeast Asia
5.Modeling Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in Mountainous Regions: Challenges in the Representation of Indirect Microphysical Effects with Impacts at Subregional Scales
6.The Chemical Nature of Individual Size-Resolved Raindrops and Their Residual Particles Collected During High Atmospheric Loading for PM2.5