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Floods - how they form and how we influence them
… 51,315 square kilometres (km²) of settlement and transport areas at the end of 2018. 45.1% of this urbanised surface is sealed, according to the Federal … expected due to global warming can be quantified based on different climate model projections (so-called ensembles) compared to a reference period. The calculations … end of the century (2071-2100), isolated moderate increases in flood discharges are projected in the optimistic case and generally increased, sometimes significantly …