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Sep 26, 2024 · With heavy precipitation events expected to grow in a warming climate, the economic and social toll of floods in the U.S. is set to increase in the coming decades. Show more.
Apr 18, 2023 · The NWS Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services and the National Climatic Data Center compiled this Summary of U.S. Natural Hazard Statistics from Storm Data, a report comprising statistics from NWS forecast offices in the 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.
Apr 6, 2022 · Flash floods are largely driven by high rainfall rates in convective storms that are projected to increase in frequency and intensity in a warmer climate in the future. However, quantifying the...
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Jun 21, 2021 · Coastal locations around the United States, particularly along the Atlantic coast, are experiencing recurrent flooding at high tide. Continued sea-level rise (SLR) will exacerbate the issue...
- Philip R. Thompson, Philip R. Thompson, Matthew J. Widlansky, Benjamin D. Hamlington, Mark A. Merrif...
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Jan 31, 2022 · Published: January 31, 2022 11:00am EST. Climate change is raising flood risks in neighborhoods across the U.S. much faster than many people realize. Over the next three decades, the cost of...
Sep 26, 2023 · It describes the types of flooding, the contribution of climate change, historical trends of flood impacts and costs, the role of exposure to rising flood costs, and social vulnerability to flooding—which leads to uneven impacts of floods across people and communities.
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Mar 18, 2021 · The 2021 National Hydrologic Assessment offers an analysis of flood risk, water supply, and ice break-up and jam flooding for spring 2021 based on late summer, fall, and winter precipitation, frost depth, soil saturation levels, snowpack, current streamflow, and projected spring weather.