Günter Blöschl, Julia Hall, Alberto Viglione, Rui A P Perdigão, Juraj Parajka, Bruno Merz, David Lun, Berit Arheimer, Giuseppe T Aronica, Ardian Bilibashi, Miloň Boháč, Ognjen Bonacci, Marco Borga, Ivan Čanjevac, Attilio Castellarin, Giovanni B Chirico, Pierluigi Claps, Natalia Frolova, Daniele Ganora, Liudmyla Gorbachova, Ali Gül, Jamie Hannaford, Shaun Harrigan, Maria Kireeva, Andrea Kiss, Thomas R Kjeldsen, Silvia Kohnová, Jarkko J Koskela, Ondrej Ledvinka, Neil Macdonald, Maria Mavrova-Guirguinova, Luis Mediero, Ralf Merz, Peter Molnar, Alberto Montanari, Conor Murphy, Marzena Osuch, Valeryia Ovcharuk, Ivan Radevski, José L Salinas, Eric Sauquet, Mojca Šraj, Jan Szolgay, Elena Volpi, Donna Wilson, Klodian Zaimi, Nenad Živković
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...
August 28, 2019: Nature