Author(s): Igor Lescesen; Biljana Basarin; Manfred Mudelsee
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Abstract: With a length of 945 kilometres and a total area of roughly 97,000 km2, the Sava has the second-largest subbasin of the Danube and within Southeastern Europe, the Sava is the longest river with the largest river basin. The Sava River basin spreads across parts of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and as well Serbia. In this study the daily discharge values for the 1961-2020 period for six stations located on the Sava River were used. The sixty-year time span provides reliable results taking into account that the average record length recommended by the WMO is 30 years. For the extraction of high discharge values, the peaks-over-threshold (POT) method was applied with the threshold levels set at the 90th percentile. A minimum time span of 15 days between two consecutive peaks was applied to achieve independence between two successive events (Mallakpour and Villarini 2015, Mudelsee 2020).
Year: 2022