Changing flood frequencies under opposing late Pleistocene eastern Mediterranean climates.

ABSTRACT: Floods comprise a dominant hydroclimatic phenomenon in aridlands with significant implications for humans, infrastructure, and landscape evolution worldwide. The study of short-term hydroclimatic variability, such as floods, and its forecasting for episodes of changing climate therefore poses a dominant challenge for the scientific community, and predominantly relies on modeling. Testing the capabilities of climate models to properly describe past and forecast future short-term hydroclimatic phenomena such as floods requires verification against suitable geological archives. However, determining flood frequency during changing climate is rarely achieved, because modern and paleoflood records, especially in arid regions, are often too short or discontinuous. Thus, coeval independent climate

SUBMITTER: Ben Dor Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5981606 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature