Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
07 2020
Historique:
received: 25 11 2019
accepted: 21 05 2020
entrez: 24 7 2020
pubmed: 24 7 2020
medline: 24 7 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

There are concerns that recent climate change is altering the frequency and magnitude of river floods in an unprecedented way

Identifiants

pubmed: 32699397
doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2478-3
pii: 10.1038/s41586-020-2478-3
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

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Pagination

560-566

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn

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Auteurs

Günter Blöschl (G)

Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. bloeschl@hydro.tuwien.ac.at.

Andrea Kiss (A)

Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.

Alberto Viglione (A)

Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy.

Mariano Barriendos (M)

Department of History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Oliver Böhm (O)

Institute of Geography, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.

Rudolf Brázdil (R)

Institute of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.

Denis Coeur (D)

ACTHYS-Diffusion, Grenoble, France.

Gaston Demarée (G)

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.

Maria Carmen Llasat (MC)

Department of Applied Physics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Neil Macdonald (N)

Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Dag Retsö (D)

Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Lars Roald (L)

Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Oslo, Norway.

Petra Schmocker-Fackel (P)

Hydrology Division, Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Bern, Switzerland.

Inês Amorim (I)

Department of History, Political and International Studies, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Monika Bělínová (M)

Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.

Gerardo Benito (G)

Department of Geology, National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.

Chiara Bertolin (C)

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

Dario Camuffo (D)

National Research Council, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Padua, Italy.

Daniel Cornel (D)

VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization, Vienna, Austria.

Radosław Doktor (R)

Centre for Flood and Drought Modelling, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland.

Líbor Elleder (L)

Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Prague, Czech Republic.

Silvia Enzi (S)

Kleio Studio Associate Research Company, Padua, Italy.

João Carlos Garcia (JC)

Faculty of Arts, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Rüdiger Glaser (R)

Department of Physical Geography, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Julia Hall (J)

Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.

Klaus Haslinger (K)

Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy.

Michael Hofstätter (M)

Climate Research Department, Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG), Vienna, Austria.

Jürgen Komma (J)

Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.

Danuta Limanówka (D)

Centre for Poland's Climate Monitoring, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, National Research Institute, Cracow, Poland.

David Lun (D)

Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.

Andrei Panin (A)

Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.

Juraj Parajka (J)

Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.

Hrvoje Petrić (H)

Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.

Fernando S Rodrigo (FS)

Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Almería, Almería, Spain.

Christian Rohr (C)

Department of Economic, Social and Environmental History, Institute of History, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Johannes Schönbein (J)

Department of Physical Geography, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Lothar Schulte (L)

Department of Geography, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Luís Pedro Silva (LP)

Transdisciplinary Research Centre Culture, Space and Memory, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Willem H J Toonen (WHJ)

Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Peter Valent (P)

Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.
Department of Land and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia.

Jürgen Waser (J)

VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization, Vienna, Austria.

Oliver Wetter (O)

Department of Economic, Social and Environmental History, Institute of History, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

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