Climate change alters flood magnitudes and mechanisms in climatically-diverse headwaters across the northwestern United States

Flooding caused by high streamflow events poses great risk around the world and is projected to increase under climate change. This paper assesses how climate change will alter high streamflow events by changing both the prevalence of different driving mechanisms (i.e. ‘flood generating processes’)...

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Main Authors: Oriana S Chegwidden, David E Rupp, Bart Nijssen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab986f