Floods and Climate

Dear Colleagues,

Flood estimation and flood management are crucial in most societies, where the high level of urbanization and the intensive use of soils increase the flood hazard, societal exposure, and vulnerability. There is therefore a strong interest in developing methods to assess the frequency, magnitude, and consequences of these extreme hydrological events.

Recently, the awareness that the radiative effects of recent anthropogenic changes in atmospheric composition are expected to cause climate changes—especially enhancement of the hydrological cycle leading to an increased flood risk—has put into discussion the basic paradigms of traditional approaches until now followed by hydrologists and water resources engineers: the steadiness and randomness of flood processes bounded at catchment scale. A number of scientists and researchers are emphasizing the necessity of enlarging the approach to estimate flood magnitude and frequency, including global deterministic processes, spatial and temporal large-scale circulation patterns, and global climate mechanisms.

This enlargement of the view poses a number of challenges, since the prediction of future changes of the precipitation regime in continental regions remains uncertain, especially for extreme events such as floods. This Special Issue of Atmosphere entitled “Flood and Climate” intends to collect scientific contributions exploring approaches for frequency and magnitude flood predictions under climate change, projection uncertainty assessment, and the identification of successful adaptation, mitigation, and risk management policies for climate change.

Prof. Dr. Francesco Cioffi
Prof. Dr. Vito Telesca
Guest Editors

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• flood hazard
• frequency and magnitude flood predictions under climate change
• climate projection uncertainty assessment
• identification of future optimal adaptation measurement
• mitigation and risk management policies for climate change
• dynamic and statistical downscaling models of hydrological extremes