Articles | Volume 23, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1409-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1409-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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13 Mar 2019
Research article | Highlight paper |
| 13 Mar 2019
| 13 Mar 2019
Attributing the 2017 Bangladesh floods from meteorological and hydrological perspectives
Sjoukje Philip
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the Netherlands
Sarah Sparrow
Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Sarah F. Kew
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the Netherlands
Karin van der Wiel
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the Netherlands
Niko Wanders
Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Roop Singh
Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague, the Netherlands
Ahmadul Hassan
Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague, the Netherlands
Khaled Mohammed
Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Hammad Javid
Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Oxford, UK
Karsten Haustein
Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Oxford, UK
Friederike E. L. Otto
Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Oxford, UK
Feyera Hirpa
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Ruksana H. Rimi
Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Oxford, UK
A. K. M. Saiful Islam
Institute of Water and Flood Management,
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
David C. H. Wallom
Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the Netherlands
Data sets
GPCC First Guess Daily Product at 1.0°: Near Real-Time First Guess daily Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges based on SYNOP Data K. Schamm, M. Ziese, A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, B. Rudolf, and U. Schneider https://doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FG_D_100
GPCC Full Data Daily Version 1.0 at 1.0°: Daily Land-Surface Precipitation from Rain-Gauges built on GTS-based and Historic Data K. Schamm, M. Ziese, K. Raykova, A. Becker, P. Finger, A. Meyer-Christoffer, and U. Schneider https://doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/FD_D_V1_100
Short summary
In August 2017 Bangladesh faced one of its worst river flooding events in recent history. For the large Brahmaputra basin, using precipitation alone as a proxy for flooding might not be appropriate. In this paper we explicitly test this assumption by performing an attribution of both precipitation and discharge as a flooding-related measure to climate change. We find the change in risk to be of similar order of magnitude (between 1 and 2) for both the meteorological and hydrological approach.
In August 2017 Bangladesh faced one of its worst river flooding events in recent history. For...
