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Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood

Despite the recent prevalence of severe drought, California faces a broadly underappreciated risk of severe floods. Here, we investigate the physical characteristics of “plausible worst case scenario” extreme storm sequences capable of giving rise to “megaflood” conditions using a combination of cli...

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Autores principales: Huang, Xingying, Swain, Daniel L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9374343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35960799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq0995