Recent trends in the frequency  and duration of global floods

Najibi, Nasser; Devineni, Naresh

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-757-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-757-2018

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Hydro-climate dynamics, analytics and predictability

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-757-2018

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Research article

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08 Jun 2018

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Recent trends in the frequency and duration of global floods

Nasser Najibi and Naresh Devineni

Data sets

Frequency, Duration, and Damages of Global Floods: 1985-2015 Nasser Najibi and Naresh Devineni https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/B7TLJW

Short summary

A global assessment of flood events using the Dartmouth Flood Observatory (DFO) database is performed here to explore the planetary nature of the trends in the frequency and duration of floods (short, moderate, and long). This comprehensive study is the very first global study of actual flood events which identifies temporal changes in frequencies and characteristics of probability distribution of flood durations to understand the changing organization of the local to global dynamical systems.