Climate change enhances extreme rains more than the ordinary drizzle. New research shows that frontal rain increases the most, and illustrates why extreme rains caused by other phenomena are not ...

Atmospheric fronts—boundaries between contrasting air masses—play a central role in the development of heavy rainfall and storm systems in mid-latitudes. Frontogenesis, the intensification of thermal ...

The Mediterranean Basin is characterised by a marked seasonality in precipitation, with most rainfall occurring during autumn and winter and driven by the interaction of large-scale synoptic systems, ...