Communications Earth & Environment (Apr 2022)

A severe landslide event in the Alpine foreland under possible future climate and land-use changes

  • Douglas Maraun,
  • Raphael Knevels,
  • Aditya N. Mishra,
  • Heimo Truhetz,
  • Emanuele Bevacqua,
  • Herwig Proske,
  • Giuseppe Zappa,
  • Alexander Brenning,
  • Helene Petschko,
  • Armin Schaffer,
  • Philip Leopold,
  • Bryony L. Puxley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00408-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The area affected by a landslide analogous to an Alpine foreland event in 2009 could be up to 45% larger under 4 K of global warming, or 10% if warming is limited in line with the Paris Agreement, according to simulations of event storylines with varying climate, soil moisture and land use.