| Long-term flood series can be gained by combining evidence and systematic hydrological observations. Following various already existing local and regional studies, an important aim of the present work is to create a broad European database of long flood chronologies and to use them for detecting changes in flood regimes with respect to common break points. Another aim of the investigations is to reveal the main causes (e.g. atmospheric, human) of these changes and study spatial and temporal variability of floods on a European scale. In the presentation we provide an overview on the current stage of these Europe-wide investigations, including the available source types (i.e. documentary and instrumental), geographical coverage, temporal and spatial distribution of long-term flood series applied in the study. The first research results concerns basic information on magnitude, frequency and seasonality of floods (with special consideration of detectable changes).
Full list of authors in alphabetic order:
Mariano Barriendos (1), Günter Blöschl (2), Rudolf Brázdil (3), Gerardo Benito (4), Chiara Bertolin (5), Dario Camuffo (5), Gaston Demarée (6), Líbor Elleder (7), Silvi Enzi (8), Rüdiger Glaser (9), Julia Hall (2), Andrea Kiss (2), Oldrich Kotyza (10), Carmen Maria del Llasat (1), Neil MacDonald (11), Rui Perdigao (2), Dag Retsö (12), Lars Roald (13), Josep Luis Ruiz Bellet (1), Johannes Schönbeim (9), Petra Schmocker-Fackel (14), Lothar Schulte (1), Hubert Valasek (15), Oliver Wetter (16)
(1) Faculty of Geography and History, University of Barcelona, Spain
(2) Institute of Hydrological Engineering and Water Resources Management, TU Wien
(3) Institute of Geography, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
(4) Laboratory of Hydrology and Geomorphology, Center of Env. Sciences, Madrid, Spain
(5) Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
(6) Royal Meteorological Institute, Brussels, Belgium
(7) Research Group of Hydrology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
(8) Kleio - Studio Associato di Ricerca, Padova, Italy
(9) Department of Geography, University of Freiburg, Germany
(10) Regional Museum, Litomerice, Czech Republic
(11) Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Great Britain
(12) Department of Economic History, Stockholm University, Sweden
(13) Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Administration, Norway
(14) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
(15) Moravian Land Archives, Brno, Czech Republic
(16) Institute of History, University of Bern, Switzerland |