Evaluation of extensive floods in western/central Europe

Gvoždíková, Blanka; Müller, Miloslav

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3715-2017

Articles | Volume 21, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3715-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3715-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 7

Research article

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21 Jul 2017

Research article |

| 21 Jul 2017

Evaluation of extensive floods in western/central Europe

Blanka Gvoždíková and Miloslav Müller

Data sets

European catchments and Rivers network system EEA https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/european-catchments-and-rivers-network

Hydrographic data of Austria eHYD http://ehyd.gv.at/

River discharge data GRDC http://www.bafg.de/GRDC/

Central database IMGW-PIB https://dane.imgw.pl/

Short summary

This paper addresses the evaluation of extreme floods in western/central Europe in terms of different index variants. The comparison of extreme floods' rankings is presented, as well as the main characteristics of temporal and spatial distributions of flood extremes. The results will be used for the assessment of related meteorological conditions. A comparison of major floods with precipitation and circulation extremes will be useful for a better understanding of the causes of extensive floods.