Historical floods in the Dutch Rhine Delta
Rüdiger Glaser|Heiko Stangl
Abstract. Historical records provide direct information about the climatic impact on society. Especially great natural disasters such as river floods have been for long attracting attention of humankind. Time series flood development Rhine branches Waal, Nederrijn/Lek and IJssel in Dutch Delta are presented this paper. In case Waal it is even possible to compare historical frequencies based documentary data with recent reconstructed from standardized instrumental measurements. brief, we will also discuss various parameters concerning structure "human dimension" disaster, i.e. vulnerability society when facing disasters.
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