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Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate

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NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
卷 12, 期 12, 页码 1160-+

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01539-7

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [42088101, 42175168]
  2. Innovation Group Project of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai) [311021009]
  3. US National Science Foundation (NSF) [AGS-1952745, AGS-1854486]

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There is controversy over whether and to what extent extreme precipitation caused by global warming affects river floods. This study finds that different flood types have different responses to extreme precipitation increases, with rainfall-induced floods increasing and snow-related floods decreasing. This overall leads to an unapparent change in total global floods. Distinguishing flood-generating mechanisms is important in assessing flood changes and associated risks.
An intensified hydrological cycle with global warming is expected to increase the intensity and frequency of extreme precipitation events. However, whether and to what extent the enhanced extreme precipitation translates into changes in river floods remains controversial. Here we demonstrate that previously reported unapparent or even negative responses of river flood discharge (defined as annual maximum discharge) to extreme precipitation increases are largely caused by mixing the signals of floods with different generating mechanisms. Stratifying by flood type, we show a positive response of rainstorm-induced floods to extreme precipitation increases. However, this response is almost entirely offset by concurrent decreases in snow-related floods, leading to an overall unapparent change in total global floods in both historical observations and future climate projections. Our findings highlight an increasing rainstorm-induced flood risk under warming and the importance of distinguishing flood-generating mechanisms in assessing flood changes and associated social-economic and environmental risks. Climate change is expected to intensify the hydrological cycle, but how this translates into changes in river floods is not clear. Here, the authors show that changes in river flood discharge differ between flood types, with increases in rainfall-induced floods and decreases in snow-related floods.

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