Globally, floods seem to be decreasing even as extreme rainfall rises. Why?
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 09:32
in Earth & Climate
Over the past decade we have seen a substantial increase in our scientific understanding of how climate change affects extreme rainfall events. Not only do our climate models suggest that heavy rainfall events will intensify as the atmosphere warms, but we have also seen these projections start to become reality, with observed increases in rainfall intensity in two-thirds of the places covered by our global database.