Climate change has a dramatic effect on the hydrologic variables including extreme rainfall amounts. To evaluate the climate change effects, general circulation models (GCMs) have been developed. However, due to the daily temporal scale of GCM outputs which could be insufficient for some hydrological studies, disaggregation models are introduced. The available disaggregation models which are almost useful in producing time series of finer scale than a day, cannot accurately estimate some statistical characteristics such as extreme events. The method of fragments (MOF) is one of the disaggregation models which considers daily rainfall as the only input. In the present study, in addition to daily rainfall, other influential factors on the rainfall distribution during a day such as weather variables and sub‐daily characteristics have been considered to improve the disaggregation results especially extreme events estimation in the MOF model. The two introduced approaches have been examined for a case study in Tehran, Iran and indicated that weather variables and sub‐daily characteristics are effective in the daily rainfall disaggregation during the dry and wet seasons, respectively. These approaches seem to be much better than the basic MOF in sub‐daily rainfall disaggregation. Hence, the modified disaggregation approaches have been used to evaluate the climate change impacts on the sub‐daily rainfall distribution. The obtained results indicated an increase in the extreme value statistics such as mean and standard deviation of the 95th percentile data compared with the historical ones.
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