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Table 2 Summary of selected flood events between 2010 and 2013. The effects of anthropogenic climate change on flood events (E, enhanced; S, suppressed; N/A, no significant effect) were judged as E (S) when both fraction of attribution (FAR50) scores between ALL and NAT_dtr (dtr) and those between ALL and NAT_CMIP5 (CMIP5) show the same signal. The value of the 10th (90th) percentile of FAR (Table S1) is shown as FAR90 when FAR50 is positive (negative)

From: Anthropogenic climate change has changed frequency of past flood during 2010-2013

 

River

Region

Year

Causes

FAR

Effect

dtr

50th/90th percentile

CMIP5

50th/90th percentile

1

Mackenzie

NA

2012

Snow melt, heavy rain

0.44/0.17

−0.17/0.24

N/A

2

Peace

NA

2011

Heavy rain

0.14/−0.42

−0.29/0.18

N/A

3

Fraser

NA

2012

Snow melt

0.36/0.08

0.01/−0.52

E

4

Saskatchewan

NA

2013

Heavy rain

0.11/−0.34

−0.11/0.35

N/A

5

Red

NA

2011

Snow melt

−0.92/−0.26

−0.49/0.01

S

6

Missouri

NA

2011

Snow melt

−0.30/0.17

−0.07/0.37

S

7

Mississippi

NA

2011

Snow melt, storm

−0.29/0.27

−0.46/0.13

S

8

Magdalena

SA

2011

Heavy rain

0.46/0.16

0.30/−0.02

E

9

Amazon

SA

2012

Heavy rain

0.45/0.24

0.48/0.24

E

10

Sava

EU

2010

Snow melt, heavy rain

0.09/−0.54

0.36/−0.17

E

11

Danube

EU

2013

Heavy rain

−0.01/0.38

0.28/−0.19

N/A

12

Kuban

EU

2012

Storm

0.65/0.31

−0.24/0.28

N/A

13

Volga

EU

2012

Snow melt

0.27/0.01

0.35/0.12

E

14

Lena

AS

2010

Snow melt

−0.07/0.32

−0.12/0.24

S

15

Amur

AS

2013

Heavy rain

0.54/0.25

0.45/0.15

E

16

Songhua

AS

2013

Heavy rain

0.63/0.37

0.48/0.17

E

17

Yalu

AS

2010

Heavy rain

0.16/−0.34

−0.14/0.32

N/A

18

Indus

AS

2010

Heavy rain

0.20/−0.27

0.17/−0.31

E

19

Fitzroy

OC

2010

Heavy rain

−0.09/0.64

−0.39/0.47

S

20

Murrumbidge, Murray

OC

2012

Heavy rain

0.35/−0.14

−0.33/0.17

N/A

21

Niger

AF

2010

Heavy rain

−0.15/0.37

−1.84/−0.72

S

22

Okavango

AF

2011

Heavy rain

0.61/0.22

−0.17/0.37

N/A

  1. Note: AF Africa, AS Asia, EU Europe, SA South America, NA North America, OC Oceania, N/A not available