Fig. 6: Importance of flood drivers in the past and its future changes. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 6: Importance of flood drivers in the past and its future changes.

From: An extremeness threshold determines the regional response of floods to changes in rainfall extremes

Fig. 6

Importance of precipitation (P), temperature (T), snow-water-equivalent (SWE), and soil moisture (SM) as drivers of historical (a) moderate floods (median overall events identified in a catchment) and (b) extreme floods (100-yearly flood). Future changes in driver importance for (c) moderate floods and (d) extreme floods. All panels are divided into low- vs. high-elevation catchments and distinguish between summer and winter events. Turquoise and pink colors (a, b) indicate positive and negative correlation coefficients, respectively (coefficients not statistically significant at p < 0.05 level are hatched), and green and red colors (c, d) indicate increases and decreases in driver importance, respectively.

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