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23 Nov 2017
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| 23 Nov 2017
The potential of historical hydrology in Switzerland
Oliver Wetter
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research (OCCR) and Institute of
History, Section of Economic, Social and Environmental History (WSU),
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Short summary
This paper aims to describe the strengths and weaknesses of the available historical hydrological evidence, to shed light on the existing basic methodologies leading to long-term frequency, seasonality and magnitude reconstructions of pre-instrumental hydrological events, to discuss the comparability of reconstructed pre-instrumental flood events compared to current events and to provide an outlook for future analysis with a focus on the situation in Switzerland.
This paper aims to describe the strengths and weaknesses of the available historical...
