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Potential of historical meteorological and hydrological data for the reconstruction of historical flood events – the example of the 1882 flood in southwest Germany
1Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, Department of Hydrology and Geohydrology, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
2Meteorological Institute, University of Freiburg, Germany
3Department of Computer Science, Environmental Modelling Group, University of Mainz, Germany
4Department of Physical Geography, University of Freiburg, Germany
5DUC, Environmental Consulting Agency, Freiburg, Germany
Abstract. This paper presents a hydrometeorological reconstruction of the flood triggering meteorological situation and the simulation of discharges of the flood event of December 1882 in the Neckar catchment in Baden-Württemberg (southwest Germany). The course of the 1882 flood event in the Neckar catchment in southwest Germany and the weather conditions which led to this flood were reconstructed by evaluating the information from various historical sources. From these historical data, daily input data sets were derived for run-off modeling. For the determination of the precipitation pattern at the end of December 1882, the sparse historical data were modified by using a similar modern day precipitation pattern with a higher station density. The results of this run-off simulation are compared with contemporary historical data and also with 1-D hydraulic simulations using the HEC-RAS model.
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Citation: Seidel, J., Imbery, F., Dostal, P., Sudhaus, D., and Bürger, K.: Potential of historical meteorological and hydrological data for the reconstruction of historical flood events – the example of the 1882 flood in southwest Germany, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 9, 175-183, doi:10.5194/nhess-9-175-2009, 2009. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
