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  • Changing climate shifts timing of European floods
    Blöschl, Günter ...
    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.
    Source: Science. - ISSN 0036-8075 (Letn. 357, št. 6351, 2017, str. 588-590)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2017
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 8122721

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    http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6351/588
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source: Science. - ISSN 0036-8075 (Letn. 357, št. 6351, 2017, str. 588-590)
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