Table 1.

Flood impact results aggregated to the global scale

	Flood risk indicator
	Exposed population	Exposed GDP	Urban damage
Correlation between impacts per hydrological year and JMA SSTDJF
Rho	−0.14	0.21	0.25
P	0.36	0.18	0.11
Anomalies in annual expected impacts
El Niño years, %	−8.7	−6.2	−6.8
La Niña years, %	−6.0	−10.2	−14.2

Table shows the correlation (Spearman’s rank, rho) between simulated impacts per hydrological year and the JMA SST anomaly index for December–February (JMA SST_DJF) and percentage anomalies in simulated annual expected impacts for El Niño and La Niña years (compared with all years).