Correction to: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00202-w, published online 5 October 2021

The original version of this Article contained two typographic errors in the subsection 'Precipitation analysis' under 'Methods'.

The fifth sentence contained a typo and originally read ‘To quantify how much the observed number of rainfall-records (Ranom) deviates…’. The correct version reads ‘To quantify how much the observed number of rainfall-records (Robs) deviates…’.

The sixth sentence incorrectly omitted the authors of ref 13 and originally read ‘…using the shuffling method as described in detail in13.’ The correct version reads ‘…using the shuffling method as described in detail by Lehmann et al.13.’

This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.