Hourly data reveal Alpine 100-year floods could arrive every 45 to 80 years

Heavy precipitation becomes more intense with every degree Earth warms.

This affects flooding.

Using hourly data from 384 rivers in the Alps, researchers from the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF modeled how flooding will change by the end of the century.

Their projections are significantly bleaker than earlier ones.

The findings are published in the journal Science Advances. ...