Articles | Volume 19, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1041-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1041-2019
Research article
 | 
16 May 2019
Research article |  | 16 May 2019

Stochastic generation of spatially coherent river discharge peaks for continental event-based flood risk assessment

Dirk Diederen, Ye Liu, Ben Gouldby, Ferdinand Diermanse, and Sergiy Vorogushyn

Video supplement

Discharge waves in major European rivers for pan-European flood risk assessment D. Diederen https://doi.org/10.5446/40894

Download
Short summary
Floods affect many communities and cause a large amount of damage worldwide. Since we choose to live in natural flood plains and are unable to prevent all floods, a system of insurance and reinsurance was set up. For these institutes to not fail, estimates are required of the frequency of large-scale flood events. We explore a new method to obtain a large catalogue of synthetic, spatially coherent, large-scale river discharge events, using a recent (gridded) European discharge data set.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint