Extreme rainfall events in the Northeastern USA become more frequent with rising temperatures, but their intensity distribution remains stable

This work is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW grant 20012.0067) and the Swedish Research Council (grant 2016-04187). Special thanks to Sandra Pavlovic, Ben Shaby, and Gregory Bopp for very useful discussions, and to Philippe Naveau for his suggestions. We also thank three anonymous reviewers for comments which lead to important improvements of the paper.