Two Thousand Years of Simulated Rainfall Reveal a Better Way to Predict Extreme Floods
A two-thousand-year climate model ensemble shows that a Bayesian hierarchical duration-dependent GEV model with a spatially fixed shape parameter halves ...
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Draining Wetlands for Farms Yields Poor Harvests and Soaring Flood Risk
A global satellite-based analysis finds that croplands converted from wetlands since 2000 contribute only 0.1 percent of world crop production ...
Thailand’s Monster Floods Set to Strike Three Times More Often by Century’s End
A new study projects that climate change will amplify flood volumes in Thailand's Chao Phraya River basin by up to ...
New Statistical Study Reveals How Climate Change Reshapes Both Light and Extreme Rainfall
A study of more than 900 French rain gauges shows that flexible three-parameter distributions with evolving shape parameters are essential ...
How Much Is Your House Worth to a Flood? New Study Puts a Price on Every Building in Germany
A new benchmark study of the flood-hit Ahrweiler district shows that different exposure modelling workflows can produce building asset value ...
Smarter Rain Simulators: New Statistical Upgrade Sharpens Extreme Precipitation Forecasts
Researchers have extended a widely used class of statistical precipitation generators with flexible distributional modelling and a unified treatment of ...
Virtual Rain Turns Sparse Rainfall Records Into High-Resolution Storm Data
An open-source toolkit called Virtual Rain now lets hydrologists generate realistic synthetic rainfall and convert ordinary daily records into minute-scale ...
Segregation’s Ecological Legacy: How Divided Cities Face Unequal Floods, Heat and Green Space
A PNAS special feature organized by Cary Institute researchers shows that segregation operates as a self-reinforcing social-ecological system shaping flood ...
Explainable AI Maps Shifting Rainfall Extremes Across Nigeria’s Climate Gradient
A 43-year, 38-station machine-learning study of Nigerian rainfall identifies four shifting climate zones, rising monsoon extremes and last-month rainfall as ...
Satellite Rain Maps Put to the Test Over a Flood-Prone Tropical Island
A two-year validation study in Trinidad's Northern Range shows that the IMERG satellite product detects far more rainfall events and ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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