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Important floods of the past on the territory of Slovakia

In: Acta Hydrologica Slovaca, vol. 12, no. 1
Pavla Pekárová - Peter Škoda - Oľga Majerčáková - Pavol Miklánek

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Year, pages: 2011, 65 - 73
Keywords:
historical hydrology, historical floods, Slovakia
Original source URL: http://www.ih.savba.sk/ah
About article:
IMPORTANT FLOODS OF THE PAST ON THE TERRITORY OF SLOVAKIA. The systematic instrumented hydrologic observations started mostly in the second half of the 20th century in Slovakia. The relatively short data time series may not cover neither the extreme floods with long return periods, nor significant changes in their frequency, or seasonality. Such information may have basic importance for risk assessment of both floods and droughts. Therefore it is necessary to include other data sources as well. The evaluation of the design values (N-year flood) from the series of annual discharge maxima from the instrumented era resulted in underestimation of the flood risk. Data on floods before the instrumented era can be obtained from analysis of related natural data – so called paleofloods, or from various documents and historical sources (flood signs, annals of the cities and villages) – so called historical floods. The aim of the paper is to summarize the basic knowledge on historical floods on the territory of Slovakia.
How to cite:
ISO 690:
Pekárová, P., Škoda, P., Majerčáková, O., Miklánek, P. 2011. Important floods of the past on the territory of Slovakia. In Acta Hydrologica Slovaca, vol. 12, no.1, pp. 65-73. 2644-4690.

APA:
Pekárová, P., Škoda, P., Majerčáková, O., Miklánek, P. (2011). Important floods of the past on the territory of Slovakia. Acta Hydrologica Slovaca, 12(1), 65-73. 2644-4690.