Long-term fluctuations of floods in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

čeština

Original language name

Long-term fluctuations of floods in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The paper presents results of analysis of flood series in the instrumental period for the Elbe,Děčín (1851 to 2003), the Vltava, Prague (1825 to 2003), the Ohře, Louny (1884 to 2003), the Odra, Bohumín (1896 to 2003) and the Morava, Kroměříž (1881 to 2003). Sea level pressure patterns based on PCA are analysed for floods of the winter synoptic type (snow melting, ice damming) and of summer synoptic type (heavy precipitation). There is a significant decrease in the number of floods and their severity (expressed by a return period of maximum peak discharges) from the 2nd part of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century. It is consistent with global warming with significant decrease in the number of winter floods. Above series of floods are extended into the pre-instrumental period based on different kinds of documentary evidence (e.g. narrative reports, newspapers, watermarks) and presented in decadal frequencies since the 15th century.

Czech name

Long-term fluctuations of floods in the Czech Republic

Czech description

The paper presents results of analysis of flood series in the instrumental period for the Elbe,Děčín (1851 to 2003), the Vltava, Prague (1825 to 2003), the Ohře, Louny (1884 to 2003), the Odra, Bohumín (1896 to 2003) and the Morava, Kroměříž (1881 to 2003). Sea level pressure patterns based on PCA are analysed for floods of the winter synoptic type (snow melting, ice damming) and of summer synoptic type (heavy precipitation). There is a significant decrease in the number of floods and their severity (expressed by a return period of maximum peak discharges) from the 2nd part of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century. It is consistent with global warming with significant decrease in the number of winter floods. Above series of floods are extended into the pre-instrumental period based on different kinds of documentary evidence (e.g. narrative reports, newspapers, watermarks) and presented in decadal frequencies since the 15th century.

Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

DA - Hydrology and limnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA205%2F03%2FZ016" target="_blank" >GA205/03/Z016: Historical and recent floods in the Czech Republic: causes, sezonality, trends, impacts</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2006

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU General Assembly, Vol. 8

ISBN

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ISSN

1029-7006

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

1

Pages from-to

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Publisher name

European Geophysical Union

Place of publication

Vienna

Event location

Vienna

Event date

Apr 2, 2006

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

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