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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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.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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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
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
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.
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