Flood triggering in Switzerland: the role of daily  to monthly preceding precipitation

Froidevaux, P.; Schwanbeck, J.; Weingartner, R.; Chevalier, C.; Martius, O.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-3903-2015

Articles | Volume 19, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-3903-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-3903-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 9

Research article

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17 Sep 2015

Research article |

| 17 Sep 2015

Flood triggering in Switzerland: the role of daily to monthly preceding precipitation

P. Froidevaux, J. Schwanbeck, R. Weingartner, C. Chevalier, and O. Martius

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RC C1351: 'Review of ``Flood triggering in Switzerland'' by Paul Froidevaux et al.', Claudia Brauer, 06 May 2015
- AC C2131: 'Reply to the comments of referee Claudia Brauer', Paul Froidevaux, 19 Jun 2015
RC C1464: 'Nice data harversting study. Some minor issues to be discussed.', Massimiliano Zappa, 13 May 2015
- AC C2132: 'Reply to the comments of referee Massimiliano Zappa', Paul Froidevaux, 19 Jun 2015

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (16 Jul 2015) by Albrecht Weerts

AR by Paul Froidevaux on behalf of the Authors (14 Aug 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (28 Aug 2015) by Albrecht Weerts

AR by Paul Froidevaux on behalf of the Authors (30 Aug 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (31 Aug 2015) by Albrecht Weerts

AR by Paul Froidevaux on behalf of the Authors (01 Sep 2015)

Short summary

We investigate precipitation characteristics prior to 4000 annual floods in Switzerland since 1961. The floods were preceded by heavy precipitation, but in most catchments extreme precipitation occurred only during the last 3 days prior to the flood events. Precipitation sums for earlier time periods (like e.g. 4-14 days prior to floods) were mostly average and do not correlate with the return period of the floods.