Analyses of extreme flooding in Austria over the period 1951–2006

• Published in: International Journal of Climatology
• Main Authors: Villarini, Gabriele, Smith, James A., Serinaldi, Francesco, Ntelekos, Alexandros A., Schwarz, Ulrich
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2011
• Subjects: Kendall; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.2331; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjoc.2331; https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/joc.2331

Abstract Analyses of extreme flooding in Austria is performed using daily discharge time series from 27 stations over the period 1951‐2006. The main research questions revolve around: (1) temporal non‐stationarities in the flood record, (2) upper tail and scaling properties of the flood peak records...