Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 23, issue 5
Articles | Volume 23, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1967-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1967-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 23, issue 5
Research article
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31 May 2023
Research article |  | 31 May 2023

Compound flood events: analysing the joint occurrence of extreme river discharge events and storm surges in northern and central Europe

Philipp Heinrich, Stefan Hagemann, Ralf Weisse, Corinna Schrum, Ute Daewel, and Lidia Gaslikova

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High seawater levels co-occurring with high river discharges have the potential to cause destructive flooding. For the past decades, the number of such compound events was larger than expected by pure chance for most of the west-facing coasts in Europe. Additionally rivers with smaller catchments showed higher numbers. In most cases, such events were associated with a large-scale weather pattern characterized by westerly winds and strong rainfall.
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