Less Rain, More Intense Storms: Climate Change Strengthens Extreme Urban Floods
The study found about 1.5 billion urban residents live in areas where rainfall may decline while the heaviest downpours intensify by 20%.
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Less rain, worse floods: Study finds a quarter of urban land faces drier climate but fiercer downpours
A warming climate could leave some cities with less rain overall but worse floods, according to a new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The researchers found that about a quarter of the world’s urban land is on track to get drier on average while its heaviest downpours grow more intense. The study, published
Less rain, more intense storms: Climate change strengthens extreme urban floods
A new study reveals a troubling consequence of climate change: Even as rainfall decreases, cities could face increasingly severe flooding. The study was led by Ph.D. student Raz Nussbaum and co-authored by Dr. Moshe Armon and supervised by professor Efrat Morin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Science and Haitek: Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have shown that even when rainfall is reduced, cities are at risk of devastating floods due to short heavy rains.
Paradoxical climate: Even if there is less rainfall overall, particularly heavy rainfall and the resulting outflow peaks could increase. According to a model study, these opposite trends occur until the end of the century to about 26 percent of the world's urban areas. Israel's example also shows how sealed soils reinforce the differences between weak and extreme rain events. Jerusalem (Israel). [...] The post Climate change increases in spite o…
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