Climate extremes have profound implications for urban and peri-urban water management, particularly in an increasingly urbanised world . Over half  of the global population currently lives in cities , and global urbanisation rates continue to increase across all SSPs . Using observed station data for 217 urban areas worldwide, Mishra et al.  noted that 17% of cities experienced statistically significant increases  in the frequency of daily precipitation extremes from 1973 to 2012 and hypothesised that such observed climate changes in urban areas were largely due to large-scale changes rather than local land cover changes.
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