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 …

The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5 C

O Hoegh-Guldberg, D Jacob, M Taylor… - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
was established in 1992 to pursue the “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations at a …

A warming-induced reduction in snow fraction amplifies rainfall extremes

M Ombadi, MD Risser, AM Rhoades, C Varadharajan - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
The intensity of extreme precipitation events is projected to increase in a warmer climate,,,–,
posing a great challenge to water sustainability in natural and built environments. Of …

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 …

Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes

EM Fischer, S Sippel, R Knutti - Nature Climate Change, 2021‏ - nature.com
Recent climate extremes have broken long-standing records by large margins. Such
extremes unprecedented in the observational period often have substantial impacts due to a …

Recent advances and new frontiers in riverine and coastal flood modeling

K Jafarzadegan, H Moradkhani… - Reviews of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, the scientific community has made significant efforts to simulate
flooding conditions using a variety of complex physically based models. Despite all …

Impacts of 1.5 C global warming on natural and human systems

O Hoegh-Guldberg, D Jacob, M Bindi… - Global warming of …, 2018‏ - researchportal.helsinki.fi
Abstract An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 C above pre-
industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of …

Freshwater scarcity

PH Gleick, H Cooley - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
The availability and use of fresh water are critical for human health and for economic and
ecosystem stability. But the growing mismatch between human demands and natural …

Measuring inequality in community resilience to natural disasters using large-scale mobility data

B Hong, BJ Bonczak, A Gupta, CE Kontokosta - Nature communications, 2021‏ - nature.com
While conceptual definitions provide a foundation for the study of disasters and their
impacts, the challenge for researchers and practitioners alike has been to develop objective …

Urbanization exacerbated the rainfall and flooding caused by hurricane Harvey in Houston

W Zhang, G Villarini, GA Vecchi, JA Smith - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
Category 4 landfalling hurricane Harvey poured more than a metre of rainfall across the
heavily populated Houston area, leading to unprecedented flooding and damage. Although …