Weather patterns and hydro-climatological precursors of extreme floods in Switzerland since 1868

Weather patterns and hydro-climatological precursors of extreme floods in Switzerland since 1868

The generation of 24 extreme floods in large catchments of the central Alps is analyzed from instrumental and documentary data, newly digitized observations of precipitation (DigiHom) and 20th Century Reanalysis (20CR) data. Extreme floods are determined by the 95th percentile of differences between...

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Main Authors:	Peter Stucki, Ralph Rickli, Stefan Brönnimann, Olivia Martius, Heinz Wanner, Dietmar Grebner, Jürg Luterbacher
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Borntraeger 2012-12-01
Series:	Meteorologische Zeitschrift
Subjects:	extreme flood events central alps switzerland hydro-meteorological, climatological case studies weather pattern classification atmospheric precursors extreme hochwasserereignisse schweiz alpen fallstudien wetter muster klassifikation
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2012/368

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