Articles | Volume 21, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5547-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5547-2017
Research article
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14 Nov 2017
Research article |  | 14 Nov 2017

Analysis and modelling of a 9.3 kyr palaeoflood record: correlations, clustering, and cycles

Annette Witt, Bruce D. Malamud, Clara Mangili, and Achim Brauer

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Here we present a unique 9.5 m palaeo-lacustrine record of 771 palaeofloods which occurred over a period of 10 000 years in the Piànico–Sèllere basin (southern Alps) during an interglacial period in the Pleistocene (sometime between 400 000 and 800 000 years ago). We analyse the palaeoflood series correlation, clustering, and cyclicity properties, finding a long-range cyclicity with a period of about 2030 years superimposed onto a fractional noise.