Climate Change Scenarios in Germany

A constantly changing climate connects to a changing hydro logical cycle. These changes imply extreme flood and drought that occur in areas suffering from dry spells. With the majority of destructive events being located in central Europe, they've lost billions of dollars worth of damages. In order to prepare for the next disaster to come, Europeans investigated the past 50 years of floods in the five different river basins using simulations. They decided to use the basins because each one had different hydrological and climatic regimes. Results from this test explains that drought will increase in severity for three of the five basins but all basins will gradually have increasingly worse droughts as the years past. These tests and results advance environmental sustainability by being able to show past experiences and what had to happen to cause these floods and droughts to help Europeans prepare for the future. With that being said, being prepared for these disasters will help Europeans with not loosing as much money in damages.  Its interesting how they used many different simulations and all five basins to collect these results.

Huang, Shaochun, Fred F. Hattermann, Valentina Krysanova, and Axel Bronstert. "Projections of Climate Change Impacts on River Flood Conditions in Germany by Combining Three Different RCMs with a Regional Eco-hydrological Model." Climatic Change 116.3-4 (2012): 631-63. Web.