Contribution of Anthropogenic Climate Change to April–May 2017 Heavy Precipitation over the Uruguay River Basin

Rafael C. de Abreu,Christopher Cunningham,Conrado M. Rudorff,Natalia Rudorff,Abayomi A. Abatan,Simon F. B. Tett,Buwen Dong,Fraser C. Lott,Sarah Sparrow

Contribution of Anthropogenic Climate Change to April–May 2017 Heavy Precipitation over the Uruguay River Basin

2019

Rafael C. de Abreu
Christopher Cunningham
Conrado M. Rudorff
Natalia Rudorff
Abayomi A. Abatan
Simon F. B. Tett
Buwen Dong
Fraser C. Lott
Sarah Sparrow

Anthropogenic climate change has increased the risk of the April-May 2017 extreme rainfall in the Uruguay River basin, which has caused extensive flood and major socio-economic impacts, by at least twofold with a most-likely increase of about five.

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Global warming
Climatology
Physical geography
Precipitation
Physics
Drainage basin
Flood myth

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