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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blöschl, Günter
• Hall, Julia
• Parajka, Juraj
• Perdigão, Rui A. P.
• Merz, Bruno
• Arheimer, Berit
• Aronica, Giuseppe T.
• Bilibashi, Ardian
• Bonacci, Ognjen
• Borga, Marco
• Čanjevac, Ivan
• Castellarin, Attilio
• Chirico, Giovanni B.
• Claps, Pierluigi
• Fiala, Károly
• Frolova, Natalia
• Gorbachova, Liudmyla
• Gül, Ali
• Hannaford, Jamie
• Harrigan, Shaun
• Kireeva, Maria
• Kiss, Andrea
• Kjeldsen, Thomas R.
• Kohnová, Silvia
• Koskela, Jarkko J.
• Ledvinka, Ondrej
• Macdonald, Neil
• Mavrova-Guirguinova, Maria
• Mediero, Luis
• Merz, Ralf
• Molnar, Peter
• Montanari, Alberto
• Murphy, Conor
• Osuch, Marzena
• Ovcharuk, Valeryia
• Radevski, Ivan
• Rogger, Magdalena
• Salinas, José L.
• Sauquet, Eric
• Šraj, Mojca
• Szolgay, Jan
• Viglione, Alberto
• Volpi, Elena
• Wilson, Donna
• Zaimi, Klodian
• Živković, Nenad

Titel

Changing climate shifts timing of European floods

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2017-08, Vol.357 (6351), p.588-590

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A warming climate is expected to have an impact on the magnitude and timing of river floods; however, no consistent large-scale climate change signal in observed flood magnitudes has been identified so far. We analyzed the timing of river floods in Europe over the past five decades, using a pan-European database from 4262 observational hydrometric stations, and found clear patterns of change in flood timing. Warmer temperatures have led to earlier spring snowmelt floods throughout northeastern Europe; delayed winter storms associated with polar warming have led to later winter floods around the North Sea and some sectors of the Mediterranean coast; and earlier soil moisture maxima have led to earlier winter floods in western Europe. Our results highlight the existence of a clear climate signal in flood observations at the continental scale.