Frequent floods in the European Alps coincide with cooler periods of the past 2500 years

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02770" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02770</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02770" target="_blank" >10.1038/srep02770</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Frequent floods in the European Alps coincide with cooler periods of the past 2500 years

Original language description

Severe floods triggered by intense precipitation are among the most destructive natural hazards in Alpine environments, frequently causing large financial and societal damage. Potential enhanced flood occurrence due to global climate change would thus increase threat to settlements, infrastructure, and human lives in the affected regions. Yet, projections of intense precipitation exhibit major uncertainties and robust reconstructions of Alpine floods are limited to the instrumental and historical period. Here we present a 2500-year long flood reconstruction for the European Alps, based on dated sedimentary flood deposits from ten lakes in Switzerland. We show that periods with high flood frequency coincide with cool summer temperatures. This wet-cold synchronism suggests enhanced flood occurrence to be triggered by latitudinal shifts of Atlantic and Mediterranean storm tracks. This paleoclimatic perspective reveals natural analogues for varying climate conditions, and thus can contribu

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Scientific Reports

ISSN

2045-2322

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

3

Issue of the periodical within the volume

SEP 26

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000324861200013

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