Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean
region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas …

A warming climate is associated with increasing hydroclimatic extremes, which are often
interconnected through complex processes, prompting their concurrence and/or succession …

There are concerns that recent climate change is altering the frequency and magnitude of
river floods in an unprecedented way 1. Historical studies have identified flood-rich periods …

The recent dry and warm years in Europe are often assessed as extreme in terms of socio-
economic and environmental losses. However, the impact of a drought is a function of its …

Drought is one of the main threats to food security and ecosystem productivity. During the
past decades, Europe has experienced a series of droughts that caused substantial …

The amount of water stored on continents is an important constraint for water mass and
energy exchanges in the Earth system and exhibits large inter-annual variability at both local …

The article evaluates recent scholarship on famines in Europe during the medieval and early
modern periods (c. 700–1800), synthesizing the state‐of‐the‐art knowledge and identifying …

Anomalies in the frequency of river floods, ie, flood-rich or-poor periods, cause biases in
flood risk estimates and thus make climate adaptation measures less efficient. While …

Widespread and frequent droughts have affected most parts of Europe over recent years, but
it remains unclear when this synchronous drying trend began and how it has been …

In recent decades, Europe has experienced more frequent flood and drought events.
However, little is known about the long-term, spatiotemporal hydroclimatic changes across …