TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tarasova, Larisa
A1  - Merz, Ralf
A1  - Kiss, Andrea
A1  - Basso, Stefano
A1  - Blöchl, Günter
A1  - Merz, Bruno
A1  - Viglione, Alberto
A1  - Plötner, Stefan
A1  - Guse, Björn
A1  - Schumann, Andreas
A1  - Fischer, Svenja
A1  - Ahrens, Bodo
A1  - Anwar, Faizan
A1  - Bárdossy, András
A1  - Bühler, Philipp
A1  - Haberlandt, Uwe
A1  - Kreibich, Heidi
A1  - Krug, Amelie
A1  - Lun, David
A1  - Müller-Thomy, Hannes
A1  - Pidoto, Ross
A1  - Primo, Cristina
A1  - Seidel, Jochen
A1  - Vorogushyn, Sergiy
A1  - Wietzke, Luzie
T1  - Causative classification of river flood events
JF  - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews : Water
N2  - A wide variety of processes controls the time of occurrence, duration, extent, and severity of river floods. Classifying flood events by their causative processes may assist in enhancing the accuracy of local and regional flood frequency estimates and support the detection and interpretation of any changes in flood occurrence and magnitudes. This paper provides a critical review of existing causative classifications of instrumental and preinstrumental series of flood events, discusses their validity and applications, and identifies opportunities for moving toward more comprehensive approaches. So far no unified definition of causative mechanisms of flood events exists. Existing frameworks for classification of instrumental and preinstrumental series of flood events adopt different perspectives: hydroclimatic (large-scale circulation patterns and atmospheric state at the time of the event), hydrological (catchment scale precipitation patterns and antecedent catchment state), and hydrograph-based (indirectly considering generating mechanisms through their effects on hydrograph characteristics). All of these approaches intend to capture the flood generating mechanisms and are useful for characterizing the flood processes at various spatial and temporal scales. However, uncertainty analyses with respect to indicators, classification methods, and data to assess the robustness of the classification are rarely performed which limits the transferability across different geographic regions. It is argued that more rigorous testing is needed. There are opportunities for extending classification methods to include indicators of space-time dynamics of rainfall, antecedent wetness, and routing effects, which will make the classification schemes even more useful for understanding and estimating floods. This article is categorized under: Science of Water > Water Extremes Science of Water > Hydrological Processes Science of Water > Methods
KW  - flood genesis
KW  - flood mechanisms
KW  - flood typology
KW  - historical floods
KW  - hydroclimatology of floods
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1353
SN  - 2049-1948
VL  - 6
IS  - 4
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -