Research Article
Seasonal and Regional Differences in Extreme Rainfall Events and Their Contribution to the World’s Precipitation: GPM Observations
Table 3
Contribution to global precipitation by largest, deepest, and intense PFs.
| PFs | Intensity | Top 10% | Top 1% | Top 0.1% | Top 0.01% |
| Largest (area) | Total | 96.4 | 80.7 | 36.1 | 7.1 | Ocean | 96.2 | 82.2 | 40.5 | 8.6 | Land | 97.2 | 76.3 | 23.0 | 2.6 |
| Maximum height of 20 dBZ (MH20) | Total | 90.6 | 53.1 | 15.4 | 1.8 | Ocean | 89.1 | 51.5 | 14.3 | 1.4 | Land | 94.9 | 57.8 | 18.8 | 3.1 |
| Maximum height of 40 dBZ (MH40) | Total | 86.7 | 53.3 | 9.5 | 1.2 | Ocean | 86.3 | 49.8 | 4.5 | 0.4 | Land | 87.6 | 63.9 | 24.8 | 4.0 |
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