Europe: precipitation affecting floods

This map illustrates that climate change, affecting the precipitation patterns in Europe, will probably increase the flood hazard in some areas that already show the highest flood hazard level, such as central and east Europe. A decrease of the flood hazard is shown for a small area in the Mediterranean, based on a modelled decrease of precipitation. The highest increase in precipitation is modelled for northern Europe, but this area does currently not show a high flood hazard.

The reader must take into account that the presented maps are based on climate model data and thus show scenarios and not predictions or forecasts.