The court also ordered the owner, Delwar Hossain, to explain the circumstances surrounding the fire, in which 112 workers died.

In a new paper Tanjim Hossain of the University of Toronto and John List of the University of Chicago explore a real-world use of these insights.

The long-term studies by Hossain and his colleagues suggest that dams have particularly altered extreme precipitation patterns in arid or semiarid areas.