Climate and human impacts on hydrological processes and flood risk in southern Louisiana

A Getirana, S Kumar, G Konapala, W Nie… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite observations of coastal Louisiana indicate an overall land loss over recent
decades, which could be attributed to climate and human‐induced factors, including sea …

Climate change, land‐use change, and floods: Toward an integrated assessment

H Chang, J Franczyk - Geography Compass, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Floods occur from a combination of various hydrological, climatological, and land‐use
conditions. In this article, we review recent studies to identify primary causes of floods in …

Enhancing resilience: Integrating future flood modeling and socio-economic analysis in the face of climate change impacts

NP Memarsadeghi, S Rowan, AW Sisco… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
As climate change intensifies, future floods will become more severe in some areas with
geographic variation, necessitating that local and regional governments implement systems …

Impacts of climate and human activities on water resources and quality

W Duan, K Takara - Impacts Clim. Hum. Act. Water Resour. Qual, 2020 - Springer
1.1 Background The sustainable development of human social society and economy
requires access to water resources. With the rapid growth of the world's population, global …

Climate change contributions to future atmospheric river flood damages in the western United States

TW Corringham, J McCarthy, T Shulgina… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) generate most of the economic losses associated with flooding in
the western United States and are projected to increase in intensity with climate change …

Climate change impacts on flood risk and asset damages within mapped 100-year floodplains of the contiguous United States

C Wobus, E Gutmann, R Jones… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2017 - nhess.copernicus.org
A growing body of work suggests that the extreme weather events that drive inland flooding
are likely to increase in frequency and magnitude in a warming climate, thus potentially …

How does climate impact floods? Closing the knowledge gap

Ø Paasche, EWN Støren - Eos, Transactions American …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Destructive floods impose severe consequences on societies, leaving havoc and death in
their wake. Annually, an average of 9000 people are killed, and 115 million require …

Disentangling the impacts of human and environmental change on catchment response during Hurricane Harvey

A Sebastian, A Gori, RB Blessing… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Flooding is a function of hydrologic, climatologic, and land use characteristics. However, the
relative contribution of these factors to flood risk over the long-term is uncertain. In response …

Adapting to climate change in the upper Mississippi river basin: exploring stakeholder perspectives on river system management and flood risk reduction

T Reed, LR Mason, CC Ekenga - Environmental Health …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In the Midwestern United States (US), river flooding is a climate change-related hazard that
poses a significant threat to health, well-being and economic stability. The 2019 Midwest …

[PDF][PDF] Effect of Climate Change on Flooding in King County Rivers: Using New Regional Climate Model Simulations to Quantify Changes in Flood Risk. Report …

SY Lee, GS Mauger, JS Won - Report prepared for King County. Climate …, 2018 - cig.uw.edu
Climate projections indicate an increase in flooding in many Pacific Northwest watersheds
over the course of the 21st century, in response to an increasing proportion of mountain …