Climate change impact on flood and extreme precipitation increases with water availability.

ABSTRACT: The hydrological cycle is expected to intensify with global warming, which likely increases the intensity of extreme precipitation events and the risk of flooding. The changes, however, often differ from the theorized expectation of increases in water-holding capacity of the atmosphere in the warmer conditions, especially when water availability is limited. Here, the relationships of changes in extreme precipitation and flood intensities for the end of the twenty-first century with spatial and seasonal water availability are quantified. Results show an intensification of extreme precipitation and flood events over all climate regions which increases as water availability increases from wet to dry regions. Similarly, there is an increase in the intensification of extreme precipitation and f

SUBMITTER: Tabari H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7426818 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature