Australia facing increased intense rain storms
Tuesday, 31 July 2018
A landmark study shows how heavy, short rain storms are intensifying more rapidly than would be expected with global warming. Researchers say this is likely to lead to increasing flash floods and urban flooding.
The team of international scientists, led by Newcastle University, UK, and involving the University of 亚洲色吧, has found increases in short, intense rain storms over Australia over the past 50 years. The storms are substantially larger than anticipated under climate change.
Published today in , the study shows that in Australia the amount of water falling in short intense storms, such as thunderstorms, is increasing at a rate two to three times higher than expected, with the most extreme events showing the largest increases.
“This large increase has implications for the frequency and severity of flash floods, particularly if the rate stays the same into the future,