dc.contributor.author
Dietze, Michael
dc.contributor.author
Bell, Rainer
dc.contributor.author
Ozturk, Ugur
dc.contributor.author
Cook, Kristen L.
dc.contributor.author
Andermann, Christoff
dc.contributor.author
Beer, Alexander R.
dc.contributor.author
Damm, Bodo
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Lucia, Ana
dc.contributor.author
Fauer, Felix S.
dc.contributor.author
Nissen, Katrin M.
dc.date.accessioned
2022-06-29T07:28:04Z
dc.date.available
2022-06-29T07:28:04Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/35430
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-35145
dc.description.abstract
Rapidly evolving floods are rare but powerful drivers of landscape reorganisation that have severe and long-lasting impacts on both the functions of a landscape’s subsystems and the affected society. The July 2021 flood that particularly hit several river catchments of the Eifel region in western Germany and Belgium was a drastic example. While media and scientists highlighted the meteorological and hydrological aspects of this flood, it was not just the rising water levels in the main valleys that posed a hazard, caused damage, and drove environmental reorganisation. Instead, the concurrent coupling of landscape elements and the wood, sediment, and debris carried by the fast-flowing water made this flood so devastating and difficult to predict. Because more intense floods are able to interact with more landscape components, they at times reveal rare non-linear feedbacks, which may be hidden during smaller events due to their high thresholds of initiation. Here, we briefly review the boundary conditions of the 14–15 July 2021 flood and discuss the emerging features that made this event different from previous floods. We identify hillslope processes, aspects of debris mobilisation, the legacy of sustained human land use, and emerging process connections and feedbacks as critical non-hydrological dimensions of the flood. With this landscape scale perspective, we develop requirements for improved future event anticipation, mitigation, and fundamental system understanding.
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dc.format.extent
12 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
2021 Eifel floods
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dc.subject
landscape perspective
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dc.subject
rapidly evolving floods
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dc.subject.ddc
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften
dc.title
More than heavy rain turning into fast-flowing water – a landscape perspective on the 2021 Eifel floods
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.5194/nhess-22-1845-2022
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
6
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
1845
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
1856
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
22
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1845-2022
refubium.affiliation
Geowissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Institut für Meteorologie

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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1684-9981
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