Communications Earth & Environment (Nov 2022)

Deciphering human influence on annual maximum flood extent at the global level

  • Maurizio Mazzoleni,
  • Francesco Dottori,
  • Hannah L. Cloke,
  • Giuliano Di Baldassarre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00598-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Increasing annual maximum flood extent over the past 30 years is best explained when the coincident increase in urban areas within floodplains is considered not just changes in hydroclimate, according to a worldwide analysis of major river basins.