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@article{Hunt2020The2K,
title={The 2018 Kerala floods: a climate change perspective},
author={Kieran M. R. Hunt and Arathy Menon},
journal={Climate Dynamics},
year={2020},
volume={54},
pages={2433-2446},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:210715907}
}In August 2018, the Indian state of Kerala received an extended period of very heavy rainfall as a result of a low-pressure system near the beginning of the month being followed several days later by a monsoon depression. The resulting floods killed over 400 people and displaced a million more. Here, a high resolution setup (4 km) of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is used in conjunction with a hydrological model (WRF-Hydro, run at 125 m resolution) to explore the circumstances…