Climate Change Impact on the Trigger of Natural Disasters over South-Eastern Himalayas Foothill Region of Myanmar: Extreme Rainfall Analysis

Table 5

List of extreme precipitation indices by Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI) from the World Climate Research Program (WCRP).

ID	Index name	Definition	Units
R95p	Very wet days	Annual total precipitation when daily precipitation amount on a wet day >95th percentile	mm
RX1day mm	Max 1-day precipitation amount	Monthly maximum 1-day precipitation	mm
RX5day	Max 5-day precipitation amount	Monthly maximum consecutive 5-day precipitation	mm
R10	Number of heavy precipitation days	Annual count of days when  mm/day	days
R20	Number of very heavy precipitation days	Annual count of days when  mm/day	days