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Research article
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05 Nov 2020
Research article |
| 05 Nov 2020
| 05 Nov 2020
Rivers in the sky, flooding on the ground: the role of atmospheric rivers in inland flooding in central Europe
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Viorica Nagavciuc
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Faculty of Forestry, Ştefan cel Mare University, Suceava, Romania
Bin Guan
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
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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.
Analysis of the largest 10 floods in the lower Rhine, between 1817 and 2015, shows that all...
