A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

ER Siirila-Woodburn, AM Rhoades… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is decreasing seasonal snowpacks globally, with potentially
catastrophic consequences on water resources, given the long-held reliance on snowpack …

An overview of flood concepts, challenges, and future directions

A Mishra, S Mukherjee, B Merz, VP Singh… - Journal of hydrologic …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
This review provides a broad overview of the current state of flood research, current
challenges, and future directions. Beginning with a discussion of flood-generating …

A warming-induced reduction in snow fraction amplifies rainfall extremes

M Ombadi, MD Risser, AM Rhoades, C Varadharajan - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The intensity of extreme precipitation events is projected to increase in a warmer climate,,,–,
posing a great challenge to water sustainability in natural and built environments. Of …

Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood

X Huang, DL Swain - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Despite the recent prevalence of severe drought, California faces a broadly
underappreciated risk of severe floods. Here, we investigate the physical characteristics of …

Evidence of shorter more extreme rainfalls and increased flood variability under climate change

C Wasko, R Nathan, L Stein, D O'Shea - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Increases in extreme rainfall intensities as a result of climate change pose a great risk due to
the possibility of increases in pluvial flooding, particularly in urban and developed areas. But …

Increased flood exposure due to climate change and population growth in the United States

DL Swain, OEJ Wing, PD Bates, JM Done… - Earth's …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation extremes are increasing globally due to anthropogenic climate change.
However, there remains uncertainty regarding impacts upon flood occurrence and …

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 …

Geomorphic and sedimentary effects of modern climate change: current and anticipated future conditions in the western United States

AE East, JB Sankey - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroclimatic changes associated with global warming over the past 50 years have been
documented widely, but physical landscape responses are poorly understood thus far …

How do climate and catchment attributes influence flood generating processes? A large‐sample study for 671 catchments across the contiguous USA

L Stein, MP Clark, WJM Knoben… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrometeorological flood generating processes (excess rain, short rain, long rain,
snowmelt, and rain‐on‐snow) underpin our understanding of flood behavior. Knowledge …

Environmental impact of fiscal decentralization, green technology innovation and institution's efficiency in developed countries using advance panel modelling

F Wang, T Rani, A Razzaq - Energy & Environment, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The debate regarding mitigation of carbon dioxide emissions and fiscal decentralization has
gained extreme attention, but only a little evidence supports this issue. Therefore, this study …