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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...
Autores principales: | Huang, Xingying, Swain, Daniel L. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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