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Adaptation required to preserve future high-end river flood risk at present levels

Earth’s surface temperature will continue to rise for another 20 to 30 years even with the strongest carbon emission reduction currently considered. The associated changes in rainfall patterns can result in an increased flood risk worldwide. We compute the required increase in flood protection to ke...

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Autores principales: Willner, Sven N., Levermann, Anders, Zhao, Fang, Frieler, Katja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5762193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29326981
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao1914