Challenges in modeling and predicting floods and droughts: A review

MI Brunner, L Slater, LM Tallaksen… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Predictions of floods, droughts, and fast drought‐flood transitions are required at different
time scales to develop management strategies targeted at minimizing negative societal and …

[HTML][HTML] Nonstationary weather and water extremes: a review of methods for their detection, attribution, and management

LJ Slater, B Anderson, M Buechel… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Hydroclimatic extremes such as intense rainfall, floods, droughts, heatwaves, and wind or
storms have devastating effects each year. One of the key challenges for society is …

Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floods

B Tellman, JA Sullivan, C Kuhn, AJ Kettner, CS Doyle… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Flooding affects more people than any other environmental hazard and hinders sustainable
development,. Investing in flood adaptation strategies may reduce the loss of life and …

Climate and land management accelerate the Brazilian water cycle

VBP Chagas, PLB Chaffe, G Blöschl - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Increasing floods and droughts are raising concerns of an accelerating water cycle,
however, the relative contributions to streamflow changes from climate and land …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial flood susceptibility mapping using an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) model

B Pradhan, S Lee, A Dikshit, H Kim - Geoscience Frontiers, 2023 - Elsevier
Floods are natural hazards that lead to devastating financial losses and large displacements
of people. Flood susceptibility maps can improve mitigation measures according to the …

An extremeness threshold determines the regional response of floods to changes in rainfall extremes

MI Brunner, DL Swain, RR Wood, F Willkofer… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Precipitation extremes will increase in a warming climate, but the response of flood
magnitudes to heavier precipitation events is less clear. Historically, there is little evidence …

Global changes in 20‐year, 50‐year, and 100‐year river floods

L Slater, G Villarini, S Archfield… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Concepts like the 100‐year flood event can be misleading if they are not updated to
reflect significant changes over time. Here, we model observed annual maximum daily …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of urbanization on the water cycle in the Shiyang River basin: based on a stable isotope method

R Li, G Zhu, S Lu, L Sang, G Meng… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2023 - hess.copernicus.org
In water-scarce arid areas, the water cycle is affected by urban development and natural
river changes, and urbanization has a profound impact on the hydrological system of the …

Vulnerable waters are essential to watershed resilience

CR Lane, IF Creed, HE Golden, SG Leibowitz… - Ecosystems, 2023 - Springer
Watershed resilience is the ability of a watershed to maintain its characteristic system state
while concurrently resisting, adapting to, and reorganizing after hydrological (for example …

The conterminous United States are projected to become more prone to flash floods in a high-end emissions scenario

Z Li, S Gao, M Chen, JJ Gourley, C Liu… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Flash floods are largely driven by high rainfall rates in convective storms that are projected
to increase in frequency and intensity in a warmer climate in the future. However, quantifying …