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Articles | Volume 29, issue 21
Articles | Volume 29, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5851-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-5851-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 29, issue 21
Research article
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03 Nov 2025
Research article |  | 03 Nov 2025

The impact of climate change on dam overtopping floods in Australia

Michelle Ho, Declan O'Shea, Conrad Wasko, Rory Nathan, and Ashish Sharma

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There is unequivocal evidence that climate change will impact the risk profile of dams, which are critical for water supply and flood mitigation. We project changes in the overtopping risk for 18 large dams in Australia in response to global warming. We consider the impacts of climate change on rainfall depth, rainfall temporal pattern, and rainfall losses. Under 4 °C of global warming, the risk of overtopping floods was 2.4–17 times that of historical conditions.
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