With a warming climate, the atmosphere holds more moisture and greater flood risks, according to new research published in\u00a0Nature Climate Change.<\/p>\n
Scientists have compiled 11 climate models to drive a global hydrodynamic model of precipitation, evaporation, and flooding. They then used this model to predict areas that are most likely to experience more floods and damage in the 21st century.<\/p>\n
Major river basins such as those in Southeast Asia, eastern Africa and the northern Andes are likely to see a large increase in flooding. In contrast, some areas such as the central U.S. and Eastern Europe are predicted to see a decrease in flood risk.<\/p>\n
The scientists found that predicted flooding depended on the amount of warming, with warmer climate predictions resulting in more predicted flooding.<\/p>\n
Image: \u00a0Flooding in India (Credit:\u00a0Miramurphy, via Wikimedia Commons<\/span>)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With a warming climate, the atmosphere holds more moisture and greater flood risks, according to new research published in\u00a0Nature Climate Change. Scientists have compiled 11 climate models to drive a global hydrodynamic model of precipitation, evaporation, and flooding. They then used this model to predict areas that are most likely to experience more floods and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":12588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earth-atmosphere","category-news"],"remote_post_permalink":false,"remote_post_featured_image":false,"yoast_head":"\n