Flood Reconstruction
Flood Reconstruction: Palaeohydrological Approaches, Methods and Results
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031668146 | 451 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 187 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031668146 | 451 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 187 MB
Floods are among the most common and consequential natural disasters on Earth, occurring in all natural areas at all times. Yet, they often surprise us with their unexpected magnitude and the damage they cause. Terms like century and millennium floods quickly become widespread, but what do we really know about the floods of the past? How can we truly classify events like the Mississippi flood of 1993, the Elbe flood of 2002, or the Pakistan flood of 2010? Have such floods occurred before, or are they unprecedented, perhaps even consequences of ongoing climate change? To answer these questions, we must look into the past. However, river level records are often limited in duration, rarely extending back more than a hundred years, and many regions lack any measured values at all. Nonetheless, floods have left their marks.