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Heavy rain in March 2025 Argentina floods mostly strengthened by human-driven climate change

  • 1. ROR icon Universidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
  • 2. Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera
  • 3. CONICET CIMA
  • 4. ROR icon The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
  • 5. CNRS Délégation Ile-de-France Sud

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  • Meteorological conditions leading to March 2025 Argentina floods are becoming 4mm/day (up to 7%) wetter in the present than they would have been in the past.

  • This event is associated with exceptional meteorological conditions. 

  • We mostly ascribe the increased precipitation in March 2025 Argentina floods to human driven climate change and natural climate variability likely played a modest role

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