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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-3983-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-3983-2024
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Merging modelled and reported flood impacts in Europe in a combined flood event catalogue for 1950–2020

Dominik Paprotny, Belinda Rhein, Michalis I. Vousdoukas, Paweł Terefenko, Francesco Dottori, Simon Treu, Jakub Śledziowski, Luc Feyen, and Heidi Kreibich

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This paper is of great interest to the geoscience community and the broader public because it offers a comprehensive European flood event catalogue that merges historical records with modelled data, providing an extensive overview of coastal, riverine and compound flood impacts across Europe over seventy years. This will help enhance the accuracy and completeness of flood impact assessments, crucial for improving flood risk management and mitigation strategies. It also provides a milestone dataset for understanding changes in hazard, vulnerability and exposure for national, regional and continental flood risk assessments.
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Long-term trends in flood losses are regulated by multiple factors, including climate variation, population and economic growth, land-use transitions, reservoir construction, and flood risk reduction measures. Here, we reconstruct the factual circumstances in which almost 15 000 potential riverine, coastal and compound floods in Europe occurred between 1950 and 2020. About 10 % of those events are reported to have caused significant socioeconomic impacts.
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