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Intra-annual dendrogeomorphic dating and climate linkages of flood events in headwaters of central Europe

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17310%2F21%3AA22029GY" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17310/21:A22029GY - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00020699:_____/20:N0000150

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720364834" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720364834</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142953" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142953</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Intra-annual dendrogeomorphic dating and climate linkages of flood events in headwaters of central Europe

  • Original language description

    Unlike large rivers, floods in headwaters have been poorly documented despite the fact that greater discharges are expected in such areas due to ongoing rainfall intensification. The purpose of this study is to carry out intra-annual dating of past floods combined with analysis of their climate linkages which may point on distribution and origin of floods. To this end, we applied dendrogeomorphic dating of impact scars on riparian vegetation to provide flood chronologies in twelve headwaters of eastern Czechia and determined their seasonal occurrences. Furthermore, we analyzed the precipitation indices and evaluated the flood events using reanalysis of pressure fields and the climate oscillation indices, particularly those representing the North Atlantic, Scandinavian, and East Atlantic/Western Russian patterns. Based on 434 dated trees, we identified 22–31 flood event years in each region over the last 70 years. The most frequent floods occurred from May to July. In addition, in ten event years it was possible to identify multiple flood events: for example May and July–August floods in 2010, 2014, and 2016. The monthly precipitation showed the strongest, but still weak, correlation with indices of Scandinavian climate oscillation during summer months (Rs = 0.23–0.42; p < 0.00), suggesting the influence of a blocking anticyclone over Scandinavia and wet air propagation to central Europe. This finding was also confirmed by the most frequent positions of low-pressure centers located east of the study sites except for the region with western orographic enhancement. In addition, timing shift of extreme precipitation to earlier period was identified at two out of three regions. We conclude that intra-annual dating of floods supported by analyses of climate extremes provides new data from sparsely gauged headwaters, thereby supplementing the information on possible changes in flood occurrences during ongoing climate change.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10508 - Physical geography

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

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

    Science of the Total Environment

  • ISSN

    0048-9697

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    763

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    April

  • Country of publishing house

    NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

  • Number of pages

    15

  • Pages from-to

    1-15

  • UT code for WoS article

    000608188700019

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85093112996