Natural Hazards and Earth System Science www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net 1561-8633 1684-9981 9 1 2009 10.5194/nhess-9-175-2009 http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/175/2009/ http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/175/2009/nhess-9-175-2009.html http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/175/2009/nhess-9-175-2009.pdf 175 183 2009-02-17 Potential of historical meteorological and hydrological data for the reconstruction of historical flood events – the example of the 1882 flood in southwest Germany J. Seidel jochen.seidel@iws.uni-stuttgart.de F. Imbery P. Dostal D. Sudhaus K. Bürger Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, Department of Hydrology and Geohydrology, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Meteorological Institute, University of Freiburg, Germany Department of Computer Science, Environmental Modelling Group, University of Mainz, Germany Department of Physical Geography, University of Freiburg, Germany DUC, Environmental Consulting Agency, Freiburg, Germany 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. 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