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DOI | 10.1029/2018GL081883 |
Growing Spatial Scales of Synchronous River Flooding in Europe | |
Berghuijs, Wouter R.1; Allen, Scott T.1; Harrigan, Shaun2; Kirchner, James W.1,3,4 | |
2019-02-16 | |
发表期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 46期号:3页码:1423-1428 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Switzerland; England; USA |
英文摘要 | River flooding is a common hazard, causing billions of dollars in annual losses. Flood impacts are shaped by the spatial scale over which different rivers flood simultaneously, but this dimension of flood risk remains largely unknown. Using annual flood data from several thousand European rivers, we demonstrate that the flood synchrony scale-the distance over which multiple rivers flood near synchronously-far exceeds the size of individual drainage basins and varies regionally by more than an order of magnitude. These data also show that flood synchrony scales have grown by about 50% over the period 1960-2010. Detrended flood synchrony values are serially correlated, implying that years with spatially extensive floods tend to follow one another. These findings reveal that flood risks are correlated well beyond the individual drainage basins for which flood hazards are typically assessed and managed. Plain Language Summary When rivers flood, surrounding rivers often flood at the same time. This synchronization of floods amplifies their impacts. We show that the distance over which multiple rivers flood near synchronously varies strongly across Europe, and these distances have grown by about 50% over the period 1960-2010. Risk finance, flood forecasting, and interpretations of flood trends can be improved by accounting for how flood risks extend beyond the borders of individual drainage basins. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000462072800034 |
WOS关键词 | RISK ; BASIN |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/181360 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Dept Environm Syst Sci, Zurich, Switzerland; 2.European Ctr Meuium Range Weather Forecasts ECMWF, Reading, Berks, England; 3.Swiss Fed Res Inst WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland; 4.Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Berghuijs, Wouter R.,Allen, Scott T.,Harrigan, Shaun,et al. Growing Spatial Scales of Synchronous River Flooding in Europe[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2019,46(3):1423-1428. |
APA | Berghuijs, Wouter R.,Allen, Scott T.,Harrigan, Shaun,&Kirchner, James W..(2019).Growing Spatial Scales of Synchronous River Flooding in Europe.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,46(3),1423-1428. |
MLA | Berghuijs, Wouter R.,et al."Growing Spatial Scales of Synchronous River Flooding in Europe".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 46.3(2019):1423-1428. |
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