Increasing frequencies and changing characteristics of heavy precipitation events threatening infrastructure in Europe under climate change

Nissen, Katrin M.; Ulbrich, Uwe

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-1177-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-1177-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-1177-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 7

Research article

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14 Jul 2017

Research article |

| 14 Jul 2017

Increasing frequencies and changing characteristics of heavy precipitation events threatening infrastructure in Europe under climate change

Katrin M. Nissen and Uwe Ulbrich

Data sets

Pan-European gridded data sets of heavy precipitation probability of occurrence under present and future climate K. M. Nissen https://doi.org/10.4121/uuid:63c786a4-5ea4-471d-9d90-c2e0c71006a9

Short summary

The effect of climate change on potentially infrastructure damaging heavy precipitation events in Europe is investigated. A novel technique records not only event frequency but also event size, duration and severity as these parameters determine the potential consequences of the event. Over most of Europe the frequency and size of heavy precipitation events is predicted to increase. Moreover, the most severe events are predicted for future periods.