Floods

Number of papers: 2

Robust climate attribution of modern floods needs palaeoflood science — Climatic Change, 2025; Harrison et al.

“Attempts to attribute recent floods to anthropogenically-forced climate change have been made, but we argue that such assessments have failed to correctly analyse the true frequency and magnitude of past floods, when anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas (GHG) forcing was low.”

In Search of Climate Crisis in Greece Using Hydrological Data: 404 Not Found — Water, 2023; Koutsoyiannis et al.

“In the context of implementing the European Flood Directive in Greece, a large set of rainfall data was compiled with the principal aim of constructing rainfall intensity–timescale–return period relationships for the entire country. ... Monte Carlo simulations, along with stationary Hurst–Kolmogorov (HK) stochastic dynamics, were also employed to compare data with theoretical expectations. Rainfall extremes are proven to conform with the statistical expectations under stationarity. The only notable climatic events found are the clustering (reflecting HK dynamics) of water abundance in the 1960s and dry years around 1990, followed by a recovery from drought conditions in recent years.”