Disastrous floods have caused millions of fatalities in the twentieth century, tens of billions of
dollars of direct economic loss each year and serious disruption to global trade. In this …

Compound weather and climate events describe combinations of multiple climate drivers
and/or hazards that contribute to societal or environmental risk. Although many climate …

The physical understanding and timely prediction of extreme weather events are of
enormous importance to society due to their associated impacts. In this article, we highlight …

The July 2021 flood in central Europe was one of the five costliest disasters in Europe in the
last half century, with an estimated total damage of EUR 32 billion. The aim of this study is to …

neither our probability quantification nor our compositing methodology quantifies the
amplitude of extreme ridging events. Because we do not explicitly consider geopotential …

A wide variety of processes controls the time of occurrence, duration, extent, and severity of
river floods. Classifying flood events by their causative processes may assist in enhancing …

Attribution of extreme events is a challenging science and one that is currently undergoing
considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 …

Widespread flooding in June 2013 caused damage costs of€ 6 to 8 billion in Germany, and
awoke many memories of the floods in August 2002, which resulted in total damage of€ 11.6 …

The assessment of sources of moisture is key to the understanding of the hydrological cycle
at different time scales, because it enables the establishment of source-sink relationships …

In June 2013, widespread flooding and consequent damage and losses occurred in Central
Europe, especially in Germany. This paper explores what data are available to investigate …