A catalogue of the flood forecasting practices in the Danube River Basin
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rra.3826" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rra.3826</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rra.3826" target="_blank" >10.1002/rra.3826</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A catalogue of the flood forecasting practices in the Danube River Basin
Original language description
Floods are one of the most devastating natural disasters that can cause large economic damage and endanger human lives. Flood forecasting is one of the flood risk mitigation measures serving to protect human lives and social estate. The Danube River Basin (DRB) is the world's most international river basin, flowing through the territory of 19 countries, covering more than 800,000 km(2). The frequency of floods in the DRB increased in the last decades, urging the need for a more effective and harmonized regional and cross-border cooperation in the field of flood forecasting. Reliable and comprehensive hydrologic data are the basis of flood forecasting. This paper provides an overview of the national flood forecasting systems in the DRB. Detailed information about meteorological and hydrological measurements, flood modelling, forecasting, and flood warnings is provided for 12 countries that cover almost 95% of the total DRB area. Notably, significant differences exist among the countries in terms of the measuring network density, the models used as well as forecasting and warnings methodology. These differences can be attributed to the geographical and climatological setting, political situation, historical forecasting development, etc. It can be seen that there is still much room left for improvements of measurement networks (e.g., density, measured parameters) and models used that could be improved to enhance the flood forecasting in the DRB.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10501 - Hydrology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
River research and applications
ISSN
1535-1459
e-ISSN
1535-1467
Volume of the periodical
37
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
909-918
UT code for WoS article
000661233700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85107732995