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How often will 100-year floods occur in future?
Heavy precipitation becomes more intense with every degree the Earth warms. This has an impact on flooding. Using hourly data from 384 rivers in the Alps, staff from the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF have modelled how flooding will change by the end of the century. Their projections are significantly bleaker than earlier ones.
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Sophie Valeria Graf
Dep. Umweltsystemwissenschaften
Universitätstrasse 16
8092
Zürich
Switzerland