Convergent human and climate forcing of late-Holocene flooding in Northwest England

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: Schillereff, D.N., Chiverrell, R.C., Macdonald, N., Hooke, J.M., Welsh, K. E., Piliposian, G., Croudace, I.W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Fuller; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/437497/

Concern is growing that climate change may amplify global flood risk but short hydrological data series hamper hazard assessment. Lake sediment reconstructions are capturing a fuller picture of rare, high-magnitude events but the UK has produced few lake palaeoflood records. We report the longest la...