Are megafloods in Europe so unexpected?
A data-driven study by Bertola et al. shows that local extreme floods may not be so unexpected when they are viewed in a larger regional context.
P Molnar contributed to the study on floods that shows that recent megafloods could have been anticipated from those previously observed in other places in Europe, implying that local surprises are not surprising at the continental scale. This work by the group of Günter Blöschl uses an interesting data-driven perspective that goes beyond traditional regional flood frequency analysis, and was published in external pageNature Geoscience.