The variability of European floods since AD 1500

J 2010

The variability of European floods since AD 1500

GLASER, Ruediger, Dirk RIEMANN, Johannes SCHONBEIN, Mariano BARRIEANDOS, Rudolf BRÁZDIL et. al.

Basic information

Original name

The variability of European floods since AD 1500

Authors

GLASER, Ruediger (276 Germany), Dirk RIEMANN (276 Germany), Johannes SCHONBEIN (276 Germany), Mariano BARRIEANDOS (724 Spain), Rudolf BRÁZDIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Chiara BERTOLIN (380 Italy), Dario CAMUFFO (380 Italy), Mathias DEUTSCH (276 Germany), Petr DOBROVOLNÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Aryan VAN ENGELEN (528 Netherlands), Silvia ENZI (380 Italy), Monika BĚLÍNOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Sebastian KOENIG (276 Germany), Oldřich KOTYZA (203 Czech Republic), Danuta LIMANOWKA (616 Poland, guarantor), Jarmila BURIANOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Mirca SGHEDONI (380 Italy), Brice MARTIN (276 Germany) and Iso HIMMELSBACH (276 Germany)

Edition

Climatic Change, Dordrecht-Boston-London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2010, 0165-0009

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.016

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/10:00044867

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-010-9816-7

UT WoS

000278401200009

Keywords in English

Historical Floods; Documentary Evidence; Reconstruction; Europe

Abstract

V originále

The paper presents a qualitative and quantitative analysis of flood variability and forcing of major European rivers since AD 1500. We compile and investigate flood reconstructions which are based on documentary evidence for twelve Central European rivers and for eight Mediterranean rivers. Flood variability and underlying climatological causes are reconstructed by using hermeneutic approaches including critical source analysis and by applying a semi-quantitative classification scheme. The paper describes the driving climatic causes, seasonality and variability of observed flood events within the different river catchments covering the European mainland. Historical flood data are presented and recent research in the field of historical flood reconstructions is highlighted. Additionally, the character of the different flood series is discussed. A comparison of the historical flood seasonality in relation to modern distribution is given and aspects of the spatial coherence are presented. The comparative analysis points to the fact that the number of flood events is predominately triggered by regional climatic forcing, with at most only minor influence on neighbouring catchments. The only exceptions are extreme, supra-regional climatic events and conditions such as anomalous cold winters, similar to that of 1784, which affected large parts of Europe and triggered flood events in several catchments as a result of ice-break at the beginning of the annual thaw. Four periods of increased occurrence of flooding, mostly affecting Central European Rivers, have been identified; 1540-1600, 1640-1700, 1730-1790, 1790-1840. The reconstruction, compilation and analysis of European-wide flood data over the last five centuries reveal the complexity of the underlying climatological causes and the high variability of flood events in temporal and spatial dimension.

Citovat

GLASER, Ruediger, Dirk RIEMANN, Johannes SCHONBEIN, Mariano BARRIEANDOS, Rudolf BRÁZDIL, Chiara BERTOLIN, Dario CAMUFFO, Mathias DEUTSCH, Petr DOBROVOLNÝ, Aryan VAN ENGELEN, Silvia ENZI, Monika BĚLÍNOVÁ, Sebastian KOENIG, Oldřich KOTYZA, Danuta LIMANOWKA, Jarmila BURIANOVÁ, Mirca SGHEDONI, Brice MARTIN and Iso HIMMELSBACH. The variability of European floods since AD 1500. Climatic Change. Dordrecht-Boston-London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2010, vol. 101, 1-2, p. 235-256. ISSN 0165-0009. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-010-9816-7.

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GLASER, Ruediger, Dirk RIEMANN, Johannes SCHONBEIN, Mariano BARRIEANDOS, Rudolf BRÁZDIL, Chiara BERTOLIN, Dario CAMUFFO, Mathias DEUTSCH, Petr DOBROVOLNÝ, Aryan VAN ENGELEN, Silvia ENZI, Monika BĚLÍNOVÁ, Sebastian KOENIG, Oldřich KOTYZA, Danuta LIMANOWKA, Jarmila BURIANOVÁ, Mirca SGHEDONI, Brice MARTIN and Iso HIMMELSBACH. The variability of European floods since AD 1500. \textit{Climatic Change}. Dordrecht-Boston-London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2010, vol.~101, 1-2, p.~235-256. ISSN~0165-0009. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-010-9816-7.

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