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 develo** (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 …

Attribution of the heavy rainfall events leading to severe flooding in Western Europe during July 2021

JS Tradowsky, SY Philip, F Kreienkamp, SF Kew… - Climatic Change, 2023 - Springer
In July 2021 extreme rainfall across Western Europe caused severe flooding and substantial
impacts, including over 200 fatalities and extensive infrastructure damage within Germany …

Flood hazard potential reveals global floodplain settlement patterns

L Devitt, J Neal, G Coxon, J Savage… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Flooding is one of the most common natural hazards, causing disastrous impacts worldwide.
Stress-testing the global human-Earth system to understand the sensitivity of floodplains and …

[PDF][PDF] Land–climate interactions

ÉL Davin - 2022 - boris.unibe.ch
Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial 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) …

Future global meteorological drought hot spots: a study based on CORDEX data

J Spinoni, P Barbosa, E Bucchignani… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Two questions motivated this study: 1) Will meteorological droughts become more frequent
and severe during the twenty-first century? 2) Given the projected global temperature rise, to …

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 …

Climate change and rainfall intensity–duration–frequency curves: Overview of science and guidelines for adaptation

JL Martel, FP Brissette, P Lucas-Picher… - Journal of Hydrologic …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
One of the most important impacts of a future warmer climate is the projected increase in the
frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events. This increasing trend in extreme rainfall is …