 Eurocortex, Coordinated Downscaling Experiment over Europe, is a new generation of downscaled climate projections available for climate change impact studies in Europe. This new tool provides opportunities to investigate potential effects of a warmer world on meteorological and hydrological extremes at regional scales. Using an ensemble of Eurocortex RCP 8.5 scenarios, a distributed hydrological model was driven to assess the projected changes in flood hazard in Europe throughout the current century. Statistical distribution fitting and peak over threshold analysis were employed to evaluate the agreement of ensemble projections. The results indicated that the change in frequency of discharge extremes is likely to be more significant than the change in their magnitude. Overall, flood peaks with return periods above 100 years are projected to double in frequency within three decades. This article was authored by L. Alfieri, P. Burek, L. Fein, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.