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 …

Europe (Chapter 13)

B Bednar-Friedl, R Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Our current 1.1° C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

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 …

Fast simulation and prediction of urban pluvial floods using a deep convolutional neural network model

Y Liao, Z Wang, X Chen, C Lai - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban pluvial floods induced by rainstorms can cause severe losses to human lives and
property. Fast and accurate simulation and prediction of urban pluvial flood are of …

Human disturbances dominated the unprecedentedly high frequency of Yellow River flood over the last millennium

SY Yu, WJ Li, L Zhou, X Yu, Q Zhang, Z Shen - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
A warming climate may increase flood hazard through boosting the global hydrological
cycle. However, human impact through modifications to the river and its catchment is not …

Thermodynamic driving mechanisms for the formation of global precipitation extremes and ecohydrological effects

J Yin, S Guo, J Wang, J Chen, Q Zhang, L Gu… - Science China Earth …, 2023 - Springer
Global warming has altered the thermodynamic and dynamic environments of climate
systems, affecting the biogeochemical processes between the geosphere and atmosphere …

Land transpiration-evaporation partitioning errors responsible for modeled summertime warm bias in the central United States

J Dong, F Lei, WT Crow - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Earth system models (ESMs) from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6
(CMIP6) experiment exhibit a well-known summertime warm bias in mid-latitude land …

[HTML][HTML] Three hypotheses on changing river flood hazards

G Blöschl - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2022 - hess.copernicus.org
There is serious concern that the hazard, or probability, of river floods is increasing over
time. Starting from narratives that are sometimes discussed in public, the article addresses …

Shifts in flood generation processes exacerbate regional flood anomalies in Europe

L Tarasova, D Lun, R Merz, G Blöschl… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Anomalies in the frequency of river floods, ie, flood-rich or-poor periods, cause biases in
flood risk estimates and thus make climate adaptation measures less efficient. While …