Details zur Publikation |
| Kategorie | Textpublikation |
| Referenztyp | Zeitschriften |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/aae94b |
| Titel (primär) | Multimodel assessment of flood characteristics in four large river basins at global warming of 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 K above the pre-industrial level |
| Autor | Huang, S.; Kumar, R.; Rakovec, O.
; Aich, V.; Wang, X.; Samaniego, L.
; Liersch, S.; Krysanova, V. |
| Journal / Serie | Environmental Research Letters |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2018 |
| Department | CHS |
| Band/Volume | 13 |
| Heft | 12 |
| Seite von | art. 124005 |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Keywords | Flood timing, 100-year floods, flood frequency, climate change, CMIP5-GCMs, multi-model ensemble |
| Abstract | This study assesses the flood characteristics (timing, magnitude and frequency) in the pre-industrial and historical periods, and analyses climate change impacts on floods at the warming levels of 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 K above the pre-industrial level in four large river basins as required by the Paris agreement. Three well-established hydrological models (HMs) were forced with bias-corrected outputs from four Global Climate Models (GCMs) for the pre-industrial, historical and future periods until 2100. The long pre-industrial and historical periods were subdivided into multiple 31-year subperiods to investigate the natural variability. The mean flood characteristics in the pre-industrial period were derived from the large ensemble based on all GCMs, HMs and 31-year subperiods, and compared to the ensemble means in the historical and future periods. In general, the variance of simulated flood characteristics is quite large in the pre-industrial and historical periods. Mostly GCMs and HMs contribute to the variance, especially for flood timing and magnitude, while the selection of 31-year subperiods is an important source of variance for flood frequency. The comparison between the ensemble means shows that there are already some changes in flood characteristics between the pre-industrial and historical periods. There is a clear shift towards earlier flooding for the Rhine (1.5 K scenarios) and Upper Mississippi (3.0 K scenario). The flood magnitudes show a substantial increase in the Rhine and Upper Yellow only under the 3.0 K scenario. The floods are projected to occur more frequently in the Rhine under the 1.5 and 2.0 K scenarios, and less frequently in the Upper Mississippi under all scenarios. |
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| Huang, S., Kumar, R., Rakovec, O., Aich, V., Wang, X., Samaniego, L., Liersch, S., Krysanova, V. (2018): Multimodel assessment of flood characteristics in four large river basins at global warming of 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 K above the pre-industrial level Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (12), art. 124005 |
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