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City, climate change and floods. A contribution to the urban resilience study

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Changes of climate regime might raise the number of floods in  in mid-latitudes. increasing the devastating effects in societies and environment. For the Iberian Peninsula, the majority of studies indicate a rainfall decrease during the winter months and an increase during the summer; however more frequent and concentrated extreme events of precipitation are expected in some parts of the Peninsula.
This paper presents the main methodology and first findings of a research aiming to assess of extreme precipitations and climate change scenarios in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon, Portugal as a way to gather the necessary information to evaluate the resilience of at least two urban areas.

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Technical University of Lisbon

Published in Climate-ADAPT Jun 07 2016   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Dec 12 2023

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