Another one to add to the long file labeled: "faster (more intense...) than expected consequences of AGW":
Australia facing extremely intense rain storms.
Landmark study shows how heavy, short rain storms are intensifying more rapidly than would be expected with global warming. Jul 30, 2018. Newcastle University
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 120245.htmThe team of international scientists, led by Dr Selma Guerreiro at the School of Engineering, Newcastle University, UK, has for the first time found increases in short, intense rain storms over Australia over the past 50 years.
The storms are substantially larger than would be expected under climate change.
Published today in Nature Climate Change, the study shows that in Australia:
1, Extreme daily rainfall events are increasing as would be expected from the levels of regional or global warming that we are experiencing
2. the amount of water falling in hourly rain storms (for example thunderstorms) is increasing at a rate 2 to 3 times higher than expected, with the most extreme events showing the largest increases.
3. large increase has implications for the frequency and severity of flash floods, particularly if the rate stays the same into the future.
Professor Seth Westra, co-author from the University of Adelaide, Australia, said:
“These changes are well above what engineers currently take into account when determining Australia’s flood planning levels or designing stormwater management and flood defence infrastructure.
“If we keep seeing this rate of change, we risk committing future generations to levels of flood risk that are unacceptable by today’s standards.”