Research brief: New Zealand’s costliest floods caused by atmospheric rivers
March 3, 2021 3:45 pm Comments Off on Research brief: New Zealand’s costliest floods caused by atmospheric riversThe largest rivers on Earth are not on the ground, but in the sky. Our new study, published in Environmental Research Letters, showed that nine out of ten of the most expensive floods in New Zealand (2007-2017) occurred during an Atmospheric River event, and seven to all ten of the top ten most extreme rainfall events at eleven different locations occurred during Atmospheric Rivers.