Rivers in the sky, flooding on the ground: the role of atmospheric  rivers in inland flooding in central Europe

Ionita, Monica; Nagavciuc, Viorica; Guan, Bin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5125-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5125-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5125-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 11

Research article

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05 Nov 2020

Research article |

| 05 Nov 2020

Rivers in the sky, flooding on the ground: the role of atmospheric rivers in inland flooding in central Europe

Monica Ionita, Viorica Nagavciuc, and Bin Guan

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RC1: 'Comments on Manuscript - Minor Revisions', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 May 2020
- AC1: 'Response Reviewer 1', Monica Ionita-Scholz, 29 Jun 2020
RC2: 'Review comments - Major revision', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 May 2020
- AC2: 'Response Reviewer 2', Monica Ionita-Scholz, 29 Jun 2020
RC3: 'Review Comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 13 May 2020
- AC3: 'Response Reviewer 3', Monica Ionita-Scholz, 29 Jun 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (01 Jul 2020) by Nadav Peleg

AR by Monica Ionita-Scholz on behalf of the Authors (05 Aug 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (16 Aug 2020) by Nadav Peleg

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (17 Sep 2020)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (21 Sep 2020) by Nadav Peleg

AR by Monica Ionita-Scholz on behalf of the Authors (22 Sep 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (01 Oct 2020) by Nadav Peleg

AR by Monica Ionita-Scholz on behalf of the Authors (02 Oct 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

Analysis of the largest 10 floods in the lower Rhine, between 1817 and 2015, shows that all these extreme flood peaks have been preceded, up to 7 d in advance, by intense moisture transport from the tropical North Atlantic basin in the form of narrow bands also known as atmospheric rivers. The results presented in this study offer new insights regarding the importance of moisture transport as the driver of extreme flooding in the lower part of the Rhine catchment area.