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Extreme rains are drenching China’s booming cities

The Yangtze River Delta, the nation’s economic powerhouse, is soaked by heavy rainstorms more often today than 50 years ago.
A worker inspects waterlogged steps on July 6, 2020 in Shanghai, China during a yellow alert for rainstorms.

A storm deluges Shanghai, the largest city in China’s Yangtze River Delta. Urban sprawl in the region might be adding to rainfall intensity. Credit: Yin Liqin/China News Service via Getty

Intense rains are becoming more common in the heavily developed region that is China’s economic powerhouse, perhaps in part because of rampant urbanization1.

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Nature 603, 11 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00489-6

References

  1. Yu, X. et al. Geophys. Res. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097046 (2022).

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