Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes

HJ Fowler, G Lenderink, AF Prein, S Westra… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Short-duration (1–3 h) rainfall extremes can cause serious damage to societies
through rapidly developing (flash) flooding and are determined by complex, multifaceted …

Climate extremes and compound hazards in a warming world

A AghaKouchak, F Chiang, LS Huning… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Climate extremes threaten human health, economic stability, and the well-being of natural
and built environments (eg, 2003 European heat wave). As the world continues to warm …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Convection‐permitting modeling with regional climate models: Latest developments and next steps

P Lucas‐Picher, D Argüeso, E Brisson… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Approximately 10 years ago, convection‐permitting regional climate models (CPRCMs)
emerged as a promising computationally affordable tool to produce fine resolution (1–4 km) …

Role of dams in reducing global flood exposure under climate change

J Boulange, N Hanasaki, D Yamazaki… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Globally, flood risk is projected to increase in the future due to climate change and
population growth. Here, we quantify the role of dams in flood mitigation, previously …

Impact of extreme weather conditions on European crop production in 2018

D Beillouin, B Schauberger… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Extreme weather increases the risk of large-scale crop failure. The mechanisms involved are
complex and intertwined, hence undermining the identification of simple adaptation levers to …

Advances in understanding large‐scale responses of the water cycle to climate change

RP Allan, M Barlow, MP Byrne… - Annals of the New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, thermodynamics explains an increase in atmospheric water vapor with warming of
around 7%/° C near to the surface. In contrast, global precipitation and evaporation are …

Excessive rainfall leads to maize yield loss of a comparable magnitude to extreme drought in the United States

Y Li, K Guan, GD Schnitkey, E DeLucia… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing drought and extreme rainfall are major threats to maize production in the United
States. However, compared to drought impact, the impact of excessive rainfall on crop yield …

Increased human and economic losses from river flooding with anthropogenic warming

F Dottori, W Szewczyk, JC Ciscar, F Zhao… - Nature Climate …, 2018 - nature.com
River floods are among some of the costliest natural disasters, but their socio-economic
impacts under contrasting warming levels remain little explored. Here, using a multi-model …

Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

TG Shepherd, E Boyd, RA Calel, SC Chapman… - Climatic change, 2018 - Springer
As climate change research becomes increasingly applied, the need for actionable
information is growing rapidly. A key aspect of this requirement is the representation of …