Articles | Volume 27, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2479-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2479-2023
Review article
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10 Jul 2023
Review article |  | 10 Jul 2023

Floods and droughts: a multivariate perspective

Manuela Irene Brunner

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I discuss different types of multivariate hydrological extremes and their dependencies, including regional extremes affecting multiple locations, such as spatially connected flood events; consecutive extremes occurring in close temporal succession, such as successive droughts; extremes characterized by multiple characteristics, such as floods with jointly high peak discharge and flood volume; and transitions between different types of extremes, such as drought-to-flood transitions.
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