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Winter floods in Britain are connected to atmospheric rivers
[1] Damage from flooding in the winter and fall seasons has been widespread in the United Kingdom (UK) and Western Europe over recent decades. Here we show that winter flood events in the UK are connected to Atmospheric Rivers (ARs), narrow ribbons along which a large flux of moisture is transported from the subtropics to the mid-latitudes. Combining river flow records with rainfall measurement...
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Assessing and mapping damage risk of floods for large river basins is still in its infancy. Damage risk is understood to be the combination of flood hazard and the vulnerability of communities to a flood of a particular return period. Risk is calculated and mapped for two communities in which dykes are not located for flood protection: Meissen on the Elbe River and Döbeln in the Mulde catchment...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Weather Review
سال: 1918
ISSN: 0027-0644,1520-0493
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1918)46<423a:rafs>2.0.co;2