Recent trends in the frequency and duration of global floods

• Published in: Earth System Dynamics
• Main Authors: Najibi, Nasser, Devineni, Naresh
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Kendall; Pacific; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-757-2018; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00005568; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00005525/esd-9-757-2018.pdf; https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/9/757/2018/esd-9-757-2018.pdf

Frequency and duration of floods are analyzed using the global flood database of the Dartmouth Flood Observatory (DFO) to explore evidence of trends during 1985–2015 at global and latitudinal scales. Three classes of flood duration (i.e., short: 1–7, moderate: 8–20, and long: 21 days and above) are...