Event
Mississippi River Flooding 2015 - 2016
United States
The strongest El Niño on record and a climate-change-warmed atmosphere have combined forces to produce a massive storm that caused record-breaking floods in the Midwest during the first week of 2016.
Feb 17, 2016 | Ars Technica
Recent St Louis flooding made worse by human changes to landscape
Feb 8, 2016 | Marketplace
Record floods in Missouri spur debate over levees
Feb 3, 2016 | The Guardian
Missouri residents pack up and leave as once-rare floods become the new normal
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Feb 25, 2016 | Climate Nexus
Climate double whammy slams Mississippi River
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Mar 7, 2016 | Washington Post
Aerial view shows submerged Midwestern town
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Apr 19, 2016 | Climate Central
When It Rains It Pours
Apr 9, 2018 | Water
Synoptic and Climate Attributions of the December 2015 Extreme Flooding in Missouri, USA
Feb 23, 2016 | Climate Central
Unnatural Coastal Floods: Sea level rise and the human fingerprint on U.S. floods since 1950
Feb 3, 2016 | Geophysical Research Letters
Role of the strengthened El Niño teleconnection in the May 2015 floods over the southern Great Plains
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Science Source
| Nature
Robust twenty-first-century projections of El Niño and related precipitation variability
Scott Power, François Delage, Christine Chung et al
Science Source
| Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences
The Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Heavy Precipitation, Floods, and Droughts
Kevin E. Trenberth
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Feb 8, 2016 | WxShift
Mississippi River Floods Could Cost $1 Billion and They’re Not Over Yet
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Feb 8, 2016 | Washington Post
The historic Mississippi River flood: Before and after, from space