Earth Sciences

Increasing dam failure risk in the USA due to compound rainfall clusters as climate changes

J. Hwang and U. Lall

This research by Jeongwoo Hwang and Upmanu Lall explores alarming trends in rainfall patterns linked to 552 dam failures across the US since 2000, revealing that compound precipitation events are on the rise and pose serious risks to our aging infrastructure.

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