Name: Aqueduct Floods Hazard Maps
Creator: WRI Data Lab

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Aqueduct Floods

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The downloadable hazard maps were updated on October 20, 2020 to fix a bias-correction error in the data. The update only impacts the riverine maps. If you downloaded hazard maps prior to October 20, 2020, we recommend you redownload the data.

Aqueduct Floods Hazard Maps, Version 2.0

Riverine flood hazard from GFDL-ESM2M model; Year 2050; Business as Usual scenario; 250 year return period

Riverine flood map layer

Flood inundation depth maps that support the Aqueduct Floods online tool. This dataset provides estimations of inundation depth in meters for riverine and coastal floods under both current baseline conditions and future projections in 2030, 2050, and 2080 at several levels of flood intensity return periods (recurrence intervals).