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2. Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods

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Blöschl, Günter, Hall, Julia, Viglione, Alberto, Perdigão, Rui A. P., Parajka, Juraj, Merz, Bruno, Lun, David, Arheimer, Berit, Aronica, Giuseppe T., Bilibashi, Ardian, Boháč, Miloň, Bonacci, Ognjen, Borga, Marco, Čanjevac, Ivan, Castellarin, Attilio, Chirico, Giovanni B., Claps, Pierluigi, Frolova, Natalia, Ganora, Daniele, Gorbachova, Liudmyla, Gül, Ali, Hannaford, Jamie, Harrigan, Shaun, Kireeva, Maria, Kiss, Andrea, Kjeldsen, Thomas R., Kohnová, Silvia, Koskela, Jarkko J., Ledvinka, Ondrej, Macdonald, Neil, Mavrova-Guirguinova, Maria, Mediero, Luis, Merz, Ralf, Molnar, Peter, Montanari, Alberto, Murphy, Conor, Osuch, Marzena, Ovcharuk, Valeryia, Radevski, Ivan, Salinas, José L., Sauquet, Eric, Šraj, Mojca, Szolgay, Jan, Volpi, Elena, Wilson, Donna, Zaimi, Klodian, and Živković, Nenad

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2019
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3. Changing climate shifts timing of European floods

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Blöschl, Günter, Hall, Julia, Parajka, Juraj, Perdigão, Rui A. P., Merz, Bruno, Arheimer, Berit, Aronica, Giuseppe T., Bilibashi, Ardian, Bonacci, Ognjen, Borga, Marco, Čanjevac, Ivan, Castellarin, Attilio, Chirico, Giovanni B., Claps, Pierluigi, Fiala, Károly, Frolova, Natalia, Gorbachova, Liudmyla, Gül, Ali, Hannaford, Jamie, Harrigan, Shaun, Kireeva, Maria, Kiss, Andrea, Kjeldsen, Thomas R., Kohnová, Silvia, Koskela, Jarkko J., Ledvinka, Ondrej, Macdonald, Neil, Mavrova-Guirguinova, Maria, Mediero, Luis, Merz, Ralf, Molnar, Peter, Montanari, Alberto, Murphy, Conor, Osuch, Marzena, Ovcharuk, Valeryia, Radevski, Ivan, Rogger, Magdalena, Salinas, José L., Sauquet, Eric, Šraj, Mojca, Szolgay, Jan, Viglione, Alberto, Volpi, Elena, Wilson, Donna, Zaimi, Klodian, and Živković, Nenad

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2017

5. UNDERSTANDING WILDFIRES AND RISK IN ALBANIA: ANALYSIS OF FIVE YEARS' OBSERVATIONAL EXPERIENCE ON THE RISK AND ITS SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION.

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Jaupaj, Orjeta, Zaimi, Klodian, Doko, Alban, and Abazi, Elona

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WILDFIRE risk, RISK assessment, SUMMER, FIREFIGHTING, WILDFIRE prevention, NATURAL disasters, EARTH sciences
Abstract

Wildfire Risk Forecast (WRF) remains a regular procedure conducted by the National Centre for Forecast and Monitoring of Natural Hazards (NCFMNH), which is part of the Institute of GeoSciences of Albania (IGEO). WRF is generated daily by the country's administrative unit (prefecture) and disseminated to the National Civil Protection Agency (NCPA) in order to help the fire-fighting activities better coordinate in case of Fires caused or promoted by natural factors. The main purpose of this scientific work was to conduct a survey on forecast alerts and fire events during summer seasons in a period of 5 years (2017-2021). Analyses on Forecast Alert (FA), Prefecture Hit Probability (PHP) and Average Fires per Hit (AFH) were conducted on Risk-Level-bases in order to have a complete view of the topic of the study. Besides, the study put the findings on a Hazard Index Map (HIM) where Fire Risk on Prefecture basis was revealed. The calculations were made using the results of FA, PHP and AFH components in the High-Risk Level (FAHigh, PHPHigh, AFHHigh) comprising wildfire Hazard Exposure Index (HI) for the first component and wildfire Vulnerability Index (VI) for the second and third component (VI-SA and VI-SB). The methodological approach was inspired by the one used to evaluate the risk in WorldRiskReport (WRR), but due to several restrictions in this study, components for the evaluation of risk were used. The final Hazard Index Map reveals the highest risk localised in Fier Prefecture, followed by Elbasan, Vlore and Diber Prefectures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2023
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7. Coastal sea level monitoring in the Mediterranean and Black seas

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Pérez Gómez, Begoña, primary, Vilibić, Ivica, additional, Šepić, Jadranka, additional, Međugorac, Iva, additional, Ličer, Matjaž, additional, Testut, Laurent, additional, Fraboul, Claire, additional, Marcos, Marta, additional, Abdellaoui, Hassen, additional, Álvarez Fanjul, Enrique, additional, Barbalić, Darko, additional, Casas, Benjamín, additional, Castaño-Tierno, Antonio, additional, Čupić, Srđan, additional, Drago, Aldo, additional, Fraile, María Angeles, additional, Galliano, Daniele A., additional, Gauci, Adam, additional, Gloginja, Branislav, additional, Martín Guijarro, Víctor, additional, Jeromel, Maja, additional, Larrad Revuelto, Marcos, additional, Lazar, Ayah, additional, Keskin, Ibrahim Haktan, additional, Medvedev, Igor, additional, Menassri, Abdelkader, additional, Meslem, Mohamed Aïssa, additional, Mihanović, Hrvoje, additional, Morucci, Sara, additional, Niculescu, Dragos, additional, Quijano de Benito, José Manuel, additional, Pascual, Josep, additional, Palazov, Atanas, additional, Picone, Marco, additional, Raicich, Fabio, additional, Said, Mohamed, additional, Salat, Jordi, additional, Sezen, Erdinc, additional, Simav, Mehmet, additional, Sylaios, Georgios, additional, Tel, Elena, additional, Tintoré, Joaquín, additional, Zaimi, Klodian, additional, and Zodiatis, George, additional

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2022
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9. Coastal sea level monitoring in the Mediterranean and Black seas

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European Commission, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Pérez Gómez, Begoña, Vilibic, Ivica, Sepic, Jadranka, Međugorac, Iva, Ličer, Matjaž, Testut, Laurent, Fraboul, Claire, Marcos, Marta, Abdellaoui, Hassen, Álvarez-Fanjul, Enrique, Barbalić, Darko, Casas, Benjamín, Castaño-Tierno, Antonio, Čupić, Srđan, Drago, Aldo, Fraile, María Angeles, Galliano, Daniele A., Gauci, Adam, Gloginja, Branislav, Martín Guijarro, Víctor, Jeromel, Maja, Larrad Revuelto, Marcos, Lazar, Ayah, Keskin, Ibrahim Haktan, Medvedev, Igor, Menassri, Abdelkader, Meslem, Mohamed Aïssa, Mihanovic, Hrvoje, Morucci, Sara, Niculescu, Dragos, Quijano de Benito, José Manuel, Pascual, Josep, Palazov, Atanas, Picone, Marco, Raicich, Fabio, Said, Mohamed, Salat, Jordi, Sezen, Erdinc, Simav, Mehmet, Sylaios, Georgios, Tel, Elena, Tintoré, Joaquín, Zaimi, Klodian, Zodiatis, George, European Commission, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Pérez Gómez, Begoña, Vilibic, Ivica, Sepic, Jadranka, Međugorac, Iva, Ličer, Matjaž, Testut, Laurent, Fraboul, Claire, Marcos, Marta, Abdellaoui, Hassen, Álvarez-Fanjul, Enrique, Barbalić, Darko, Casas, Benjamín, Castaño-Tierno, Antonio, Čupić, Srđan, Drago, Aldo, Fraile, María Angeles, Galliano, Daniele A., Gauci, Adam, Gloginja, Branislav, Martín Guijarro, Víctor, Jeromel, Maja, Larrad Revuelto, Marcos, Lazar, Ayah, Keskin, Ibrahim Haktan, Medvedev, Igor, Menassri, Abdelkader, Meslem, Mohamed Aïssa, Mihanovic, Hrvoje, Morucci, Sara, Niculescu, Dragos, Quijano de Benito, José Manuel, Pascual, Josep, Palazov, Atanas, Picone, Marco, Raicich, Fabio, Said, Mohamed, Salat, Jordi, Sezen, Erdinc, Simav, Mehmet, Sylaios, Georgios, Tel, Elena, Tintoré, Joaquín, Zaimi, Klodian, and Zodiatis, George

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Employed for over a century, the traditional way of monitoring sea level variability by tide gauges – in combination with modern observational techniques like satellite altimetry – is an inevitable ingredient in sea level studies over the climate scales and in coastal seas. The development of the instrumentation, remote data acquisition, processing, and archiving in the last decades has allowed the extension of the applications to a variety of users and coastal hazard managers. The Mediterranean and Black seas are examples of such a transition – while having a long tradition of sea level observations with several records spanning over a century, the number of modern tide gauge stations is growing rapidly, with data available both in real time and as a research product at different time resolutions. As no comprehensive survey of the tide gauge networks has been carried out recently in these basins, the aim of this paper is to map the existing coastal sea level monitoring infrastructures and the respective data availability. The survey encompasses a description of major monitoring networks in the Mediterranean and Black seas and their characteristics, including the type of sea level sensors, measuring resolutions, data availability, and existence of ancillary measurements, altogether collecting information about 240 presently operational tide gauge stations. The availability of the Mediterranean and Black seas sea level data in the global and European sea level repositories has been also screened and classified following their sampling interval and level of quality check, pointing to the necessity of harmonization of the data available with different metadata and series in different repositories. Finally, an assessment of the networks' capabilities for their use in different sea level applications has been done, with recommendations that might mitigate the bottlenecks and ensure further development of the networks in a coordinated way, a critical need in the era of hu

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2022

10. Supplementary material to "Coastal Sea Level Monitoring in the Mediterranean and Black Seas"

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Pérez Gómez, Begoña, primary, Vilibić, Ivica, additional, Šepić, Jadranka, additional, Međugorac, Iva, additional, Ličer, Matjaž, additional, Testut, Laurent, additional, Fraboul, Claire, additional, Marcos, Marta, additional, Abdellaoui, Hassen, additional, Álvarez Fanjul, Enrique, additional, Barbalić, Darko, additional, Casas, Benjamín, additional, Castaño-Tierno, Antonio, additional, Čupić, Srđan, additional, Drago, Aldo, additional, Fraile, María Ángeles, additional, Galliano, Daniele A., additional, Gauci, Adam, additional, Gloginja, Branislav, additional, Martín Guijarro, Víctor, additional, Jeromel, Maja, additional, Larrad Revuelto, Marcos, additional, Lazar, Ayah, additional, Keskin, Ibrahim Haktan, additional, Medvedev, Igor, additional, Menassri, Abdelkader, additional, Meslem, Mohamed A., additional, Mihanović, Hrvoje, additional, Morucci, Sara, additional, Niculescu, Dragos, additional, Quijano de Benito, José Manuel, additional, Pascual, Josep, additional, Palazov, Atanas, additional, Picone, Marco, additional, Raicich, Fabio, additional, Said, Mohamed, additional, Salat, Jordi, additional, Sezen, Erdinc, additional, Simav, Mehmet, additional, Sylaios, Georgios, additional, Tel, Elena, additional, Tintoré, Joaquín, additional, Zaimi, Klodian, additional, and Zodiatis, George, additional

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2022
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15. Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods

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Bloeschl, Guenter, Bloeschl, Guenter, Hall, Julia, Viglione, Alberto, Perdigao, Rui A. P., Parajka, Juraj, Merz, Bruno, Lun, David, Arheimer, Berit, Aronica, Giuseppe T., Bilibashi, Ardian, Bohac, Milon, Bonacci, Ognjen, Borga, Marco, Canjevac, Ivan, Castellarin, Attilio, Chirico, Giovanni B., Claps, Pierluigi, Frolova, Natalia, Ganora, Daniele, Gorbachova, Liudmyla, Gul, Ali, Hannaford, Jamie, Harrigan, Shaun, Kireeva, Maria, Kiss, Andrea, Kjeldsen, Thomas R., Kohnova, Silvia, Koskela, Jarkko J., Ledvinka, Ondrej, Macdonald, Neil, Mavrova-Guirguinova, Maria, Mediero, Luis, Merz, Ralf, Molnar, Peter, Montanari, Alberto, Murphy, Conor, Osuch, Marzena, Ovcharuk, Valeryia, Radevski, Ivan, Salinas, Jose L., Sauquet, Eric, Sraj, Mojca, Szolgay, Jan, Volpi, Elena, Wilson, Donna, Zaimi, Klodian, Živković, Nenad, Bloeschl, Guenter, Bloeschl, Guenter, Hall, Julia, Viglione, Alberto, Perdigao, Rui A. P., Parajka, Juraj, Merz, Bruno, Lun, David, Arheimer, Berit, Aronica, Giuseppe T., Bilibashi, Ardian, Bohac, Milon, Bonacci, Ognjen, Borga, Marco, Canjevac, Ivan, Castellarin, Attilio, Chirico, Giovanni B., Claps, Pierluigi, Frolova, Natalia, Ganora, Daniele, Gorbachova, Liudmyla, Gul, Ali, Hannaford, Jamie, Harrigan, Shaun, Kireeva, Maria, Kiss, Andrea, Kjeldsen, Thomas R., Kohnova, Silvia, Koskela, Jarkko J., Ledvinka, Ondrej, Macdonald, Neil, Mavrova-Guirguinova, Maria, Mediero, Luis, Merz, Ralf, Molnar, Peter, Montanari, Alberto, Murphy, Conor, Osuch, Marzena, Ovcharuk, Valeryia, Radevski, Ivan, Salinas, Jose L., Sauquet, Eric, Sraj, Mojca, Szolgay, Jan, Volpi, Elena, Wilson, Donna, Zaimi, Klodian, and Živković, Nenad

Abstract

Climate change has led to concerns about increasing river floods resulting from the greater water-holding capacity of a warmer atmosphere(1). These concerns are reinforced by evidence of increasing economic losses associated with flooding in many parts of the world, including Europe(2). Any changes in river floods would have lasting implications for the design of flood protection measures and flood risk zoning. However, existing studies have been unable to identify a consistent continental-scale climatic-change signal in flood discharge observations in Europe(3), because of the limited spatial coverage and number of hydrometric stations. Here we demonstrate clear regional patterns of both increases and decreases in observed river flood discharges in the past five decades in Europe, which are manifestations of a changing climate. Our results-arising from the most complete database of European flooding so far-suggest that: increasing autumn and winter rainfall has resulted in increasing floods in northwestern Europe; decreasing precipitation and increasing evaporation have led to decreasing floods in medium and large catchments in southern Europe; and decreasing snow cover and snowmelt, resulting from warmer temperatures, have led to decreasing floods in eastern Europe. Regional flood discharge trends in Europe range from an increase of about 11 per cent per decade to a decrease of 23 per cent. Notwithstanding the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the observational record, the flood changes identified here are broadly consistent with climate model projections for the next century(4,5), suggesting that climate-driven changes are already happening and supporting calls for the consideration of climate change in flood risk management.

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2019

19. Changing climate shifts timing of European floods

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Bloeschl, Guenter, Bloeschl, Guenter, Hall, Julia, Parajka, Juraj, Perdigao, Rui A. P., Merz, Bruno, Arheimer, Berit, Aronica, Giuseppe T., Bilibashi, Ardian, Bonacci, Ognjen, Borga, Marco, Canjevac, Ivan, Castellarin, Attilio, Chirico, Giovanni B., Claps, Pierluigi, Fiala, Kayroly, Frolova, Natalia, Gorbachova, Liudmyla, Gul, Ali, Hannaford, Jamie, Harrigan, Shaun, Kireeva, Maria, Kiss, Andrea, Kjeldsen, Thomas R., Kohnova, Silvia, Koskela, Jarkko J., Ledvinka, Ondrej, Macdonald, Neil, Mavrova-Guirguinova, Maria, Mediero, Luis, Merz, Ralf, Molnar, Peter, Montanari, Alberto, Murphy, Conor, Osuch, Marzena, Ovcharuk, Valeryia, Radevski, Ivan, Rogger, Magdalena, Salinas, Jose L., Sauquet, Eric, Sraj, Mojca, Szolgay, Jan, Viglione, Alberto, Volpi, Elena, Wilson, Donna, Zaimi, Klodian, Živković, Nenad, Bloeschl, Guenter, Bloeschl, Guenter, Hall, Julia, Parajka, Juraj, Perdigao, Rui A. P., Merz, Bruno, Arheimer, Berit, Aronica, Giuseppe T., Bilibashi, Ardian, Bonacci, Ognjen, Borga, Marco, Canjevac, Ivan, Castellarin, Attilio, Chirico, Giovanni B., Claps, Pierluigi, Fiala, Kayroly, Frolova, Natalia, Gorbachova, Liudmyla, Gul, Ali, Hannaford, Jamie, Harrigan, Shaun, Kireeva, Maria, Kiss, Andrea, Kjeldsen, Thomas R., Kohnova, Silvia, Koskela, Jarkko J., Ledvinka, Ondrej, Macdonald, Neil, Mavrova-Guirguinova, Maria, Mediero, Luis, Merz, Ralf, Molnar, Peter, Montanari, Alberto, Murphy, Conor, Osuch, Marzena, Ovcharuk, Valeryia, Radevski, Ivan, Rogger, Magdalena, Salinas, Jose L., Sauquet, Eric, Sraj, Mojca, Szolgay, Jan, Viglione, Alberto, Volpi, Elena, Wilson, Donna, Zaimi, Klodian, and Živković, Nenad

Abstract

A warming climate is expected to have an impact on the magnitude and timing of river floods; however, no consistent large-scale climate change signal in observed flood magnitudes has been identified so far. We analyzed the timing of river floods in Europe over the past five decades, using a pan-European database from 4262 observational hydrometric stations, and found clear patterns of change in flood timing. Warmer temperatures have led to earlier spring snowmelt floods throughout northeastern Europe; delayed winter storms associated with polar warming have led to later winter floods around the North Sea and some sectors of the Mediterranean coast; and earlier soil moisture maxima have led to earlier winter floods in western Europe. Our results highlight the existence of a clear climate signal in flood observations at the continental scale.

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2017

22. A European Flood Database: facilitating comprehensive flood research beyond administrative boundaries

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Hall, Julia, Arheimer, Berit, Aronica, Giuseppe T., Bilibashi, Ardian, Bohac, M., Bonacci, Ognjen, Borga, M., Burlando, Paolo, Castellarin, Attilio, Chirico, Giovanni B., Claps, Pierluigi, Fiala, Károly, Gaál, Ladislav, Gorbachova, Liudmyla, Gül, Ali, Hannaford, Jamie, Kiss, Andrea, Kjeldsen, Thomas R., Kohnová, Silvia, Koskela, Jarkko J., Macdonald, Neil, Mavrova-Guirguinova, Maria, Ledvinka, Ondrej, Mediero, Luis, Merz, Bruno, Merz, Ralf, Molnar, Peter, Montanari, Alberto, Osuch, Marzena, Parajka, Juraj, Perdigão, Rui A.P., Radevski, Ivan, Renard, Benjamin, Rogger, Magdalena, Salinas, José L., Sauquet, Éric, Šraj, Mojca, Szolgay, Jan, Viglione, Alberto, Volpi, Elena, Wilson, Donna, Zaimi, Klodian, and Blöschl, Günter

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13. Climate action
Abstract

The current work addresses one of the key building blocks towards an improved understanding of flood processes and associated changes in flood characteristics and regimes in Europe: the development of a comprehensive, extensive European flood database. The presented work results from ongoing cross-border research collaborations initiated with data collection and joint interpretation in mind. A detailed account of the current state, characteristics and spatial and temporal coverage of the European Flood Database, is presented. At this stage, the hydrological data collection is still growing and consists at this time of annual maximum and daily mean discharge series, from over 7000 hydrometric stations of various data series lengths. Moreover, the database currently comprises data from over 50 different data sources. The time series have been obtained from different national and regional data sources in a collaborative effort of a joint European flood research agreement based on the exchange of data, models and expertise, and from existing international data collections and open source websites. These ongoing efforts are contributing to advancing the understanding of regional flood processes beyond individual country boundaries and to a more coherent flood research in Europe., Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 370, ISSN:2199-899X, ISSN:2199-8981, Changes in Flood Risk and Perception in Catchments and Cities

23. Hydropower and Climate Change, insights from the Integrated Water-Energy modelling of the Drin Basin.

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Almulla, Youssef, Zaimi, Klodian, Fejzic, Emir, Sridharan, Vignesh, De Strasser, Lucia, Gardumi, Francesco, Almulla, Youssef, Zaimi, Klodian, Fejzic, Emir, Sridharan, Vignesh, De Strasser, Lucia, and Gardumi, Francesco

Abstract

The understanding of the transboundary impact of Climate Change on hydropower is not well-established in the literature, where few studies take a system perspective to understand the relative roles of different technological solutions for coordinated water and energy management. This study contributes to addressing this gap by introducing an open-source, long-term, technologically-detailed water and energy resources cost-minimisation model for the Drin River Basin, built in OSeMOSYS. The analysis shows that climate change results in a 15-52% annual decline in hydro generation from the basin by mid-century. Albania needs to triple its investments in solar and wind to mitigate the risk of climate change. Changing the operational rules of hydropower plants has a minor impact on the electricity supply. However, it can spare significant storage volume for flood control., QC 20230208

24. Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods

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Ralf Merz, Maria Kireeva, Ardian Bilibashi, Marzena Osuch, Günter Blöschl, Jose Luis Salinas, Andrea Kiss, Thomas Kjeldsen, Attilio Castellarin, David Lun, Julia Hall, Conor Murphy, Neil Macdonald, Jamie Hannaford, Mojca Šraj, Alberto Montanari, Ján Szolgay, Klodian Zaimi, Ivan Radevski, Eric Sauquet, Valeryia Ovcharuk, Juraj Parajka, Daniele Ganora, Peter Molnar, Alberto Viglione, Donna Wilson, Silvia Kohnová, Liudmyla Gorbachova, Elena Volpi, Nenad Živković, Marco Borga, Pierluigi Claps, Berit Arheimer, Jarkko J. Koskela, Shaun Harrigan, Ondrej Ledvinka, Maria Mavrova-Guirguinova, Giovanni Battista Chirico, Ognjen Bonacci, Giuseppe Tito Aronica, Rui A. P. Perdigão, Luis Mediero, Ivan Čanjevac, Bruno Merz, Ali Gül, Miloň Boháč, Natalia Frolova, Bloschl G., Hall J., Viglione A., Perdigao R.A.P., Parajka J., Merz B., Lun D., Arheimer B., Aronica G.T., Bilibashi A., Bohac M., Bonacci O., Borga M., Canjevac I., Castellarin A., Chirico G.B., Claps P., Frolova N., Ganora D., Gorbachova L., Gul A., Hannaford J., Harrigan S., Kireeva M., Kiss A., Kjeldsen T.R., Kohnova S., Koskela J.J., Ledvinka O., Macdonald N., Mavrova-Guirguinova M., Mediero L., Merz R., Molnar P., Montanari A., Murphy C., Osuch M., Ovcharuk V., Radevski I., Salinas J.L., Sauquet E., Sraj M., Szolgay J., Volpi E., Wilson D., Zaimi K., Zivkovic N., Bloschl, G., Hall, J., Viglione, A., Perdigao, R. A. P., Parajka, J., Merz, B., Lun, D., Arheimer, B., Aronica, G. T., Bilibashi, A., Bohac, M., Bonacci, O., Borga, M., Canjevac, I., Castellarin, A., Chirico, G. B., Claps, P., Frolova, N., Ganora, D., Gorbachova, L., Gul, A., Hannaford, J., Harrigan, S., Kireeva, M., Kiss, A., Kjeldsen, T. R., Kohnova, S., Koskela, J. J., Ledvinka, O., Macdonald, N., Mavrova-Guirguinova, M., Mediero, L., Merz, R., Molnar, P., Montanari, A., Murphy, C., Osuch, M., Ovcharuk, V., Radevski, I., Salinas, J. L., Sauquet, E., Sraj, M., Szolgay, J., Volpi, E., Wilson, D., Zaimi, K., Zivkovic, N., INSTITUTE OF HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT WIEN AUT, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), FACULTY OF GEOGRAPHY UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE SRB, DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT LAND AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING POLITECNICO DI TORINO TURIN ITA, HELMHOLTZ CENTRE POTSDAM GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES POTSDAM DEU, DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA ITA, CZECH HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE PRAGUE CZE, FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE AND GEODESY SPLIT UNIVERSITY HRV, DEPARTMENT OF LAND ENVIRONMENT AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA ITA 11, University of Zagreb, DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA ITA, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II ITA, DEPARTMENT OF LAND HYDROLOGY LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY MOSCOW RUS, DEPARTMENT OF HYDROLOGICAL RESEARCH UKRAINIAN HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KIEV UKR, DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY IZMIR TUR, CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY WALLINGFORD GBR, FORECAST DEPARTMENT EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS READING GBR, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND CIVIL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF BATH GBR, DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY IN BRATISLAVA SVK, CSE CONTROL SYSTEMS ENGINEER RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY TIRANA ALB, FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE HELSINKI FIN, DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND PLANNING UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL GBR, INSTITUTE OF RISK AND UNCERTAINTY UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL GBR, UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE CIVIL ENGINEERING AND GEODESY SOFIA BGR, DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING HYDRAULIC ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID ESP, DEPARTMENT FOR CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH HALLE DEU, INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ETH ZURICH CHE, IRISH CLIMATE ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH UNITS DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY IRL, DEPARTMENT OF HYDROLOGY AND HYDRODYNAMICS INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES WARSAW POL, HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE ODESSA STATE ENVIRONMENTAL UNIVERSITY ODESSA UKR., RiverLy (UR Riverly), Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), FACULTY OF CIVIL AND GEODETIC ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA SVN, Department of Engineering [Roma], Roma Tre University, NORWEGIAN WATER RESOURCES AND ENERGY DIRECTORATE OSLO NOR, INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCES ENERGY WATER AND ENVIRONMENT POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA ALB, Blöschl, Günter, Hall, Julia, Viglione, Alberto, Perdigão, Rui A P, Parajka, Juraj, Merz, Bruno, Lun, David, Arheimer, Berit, Aronica, Giuseppe T, Bilibashi, Ardian, Boháč, Miloň, Bonacci, Ognjen, Borga, Marco, Čanjevac, Ivan, Castellarin, Attilio, Chirico, Giovanni B, Claps, Pierluigi, Frolova, Natalia, Ganora, Daniele, Gorbachova, Liudmyla, Gül, Ali, Hannaford, Jamie, Harrigan, Shaun, Kireeva, Maria, Kiss, Andrea, Kjeldsen, Thomas R, Kohnová, Silvia, Koskela, Jarkko J, Ledvinka, Ondrej, Macdonald, Neil, Mavrova-Guirguinova, Maria, Mediero, Lui, Merz, Ralf, Molnar, Peter, Montanari, Alberto, Murphy, Conor, Osuch, Marzena, Ovcharuk, Valeryia, Radevski, Ivan, Salinas, José L, Sauquet, Eric, Šraj, Mojca, Szolgay, Jan, Volpi, Elena, Wilson, Donna, Zaimi, Klodian, and Živković, Nenad

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History, Time Factors, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Rain, Geographic Mapping, 02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences, SDG 13 - Climate Action, 020701 environmental engineering, Multidisciplinary, Flooding (psychology), food and beverages, 21st Century, 6. Clean water, Europe, 20th Century, VARIABILITY, Climate Change, Floods, History, 20th Century, History, 21st Century, Seasons, Rivers, [SDE]Environmental Sciences, population characteristics, geographic locations, 0207 environmental engineering, Climate change, River floods, FREQUENCY, TERM, Hydrology (agriculture), parasitic diseases, medicine, Precipitation, General, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Flood myth, fungi, Seasonality, medicine.disease, Climate change, river flood discharge, Europe, risk management, flooding, climate change, SEASONALITY, 13. Climate action, Snowmelt, Environmental science, Climate model, Physical geography
Abstract

Climate change has led to concerns about increasing river floods resulting from the greater water-holding capacity of a warmer atmosphere1. These concerns are reinforced by evidence of increasing economic losses associated with flooding in many parts of the world, including Europe2. Any changes in river floods would have lasting implications for the design of flood protection measures and flood risk zoning. However, existing studies have been unable to identify a consistent continental-scale climatic-change signal in flood discharge observations in Europe3, because of the limited spatial coverage and number of hydrometric stations. Here we demonstrate clear regional patterns of both increases and decreases in observed river flood discharges in the past five decades in Europe, which are manifestations of a changing climate. Our results—arising from the most complete database of European flooding so far—suggest that: increasing autumn and winter rainfall has resulted in increasing floods in northwestern Europe; decreasing precipitation and increasing evaporation have led to decreasing floods in medium and large catchments in southern Europe; and decreasing snow cover and snowmelt, resulting from warmer temperatures, have led to decreasing floods in eastern Europe. Regional flood discharge trends in Europe range from an increase of about 11 per cent per decade to a decrease of 23 per cent. Notwithstanding the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the observational record, the flood changes identified here are broadly consistent with climate model projections for the next century4,5, suggesting that climate-driven changes are already happening and supporting calls for the consideration of climate change in flood risk management. Analysis of a comprehensive European flood dataset reveals regional changes in river flood discharges in the past five decades that are consistent with models suggesting that climate-driven changes are already happening.

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2019

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