Author(s): Sarah Dickel; Stephan Theobald
Linked Author(s): Stephan Theobald
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Abstract: The flooding and damage caused by large floods, such as the events of 2002 and 2013, demonstrate the vulnerability of settlement structures along large rivers. The 2013 flood represented an event of above HQ100 at the Danube in Passau and downstream due to the influence of the Inn River and had record water levels with catastrophic effects in part (Bayerisches Landesamt fur Umwelt, 2014). As a result, the 2013 flood caused damage of around 190 million euros in the city of Passau alone (Wittmann et al., 2015). Due to the existing development of large rivers with barrages, the question arises whether a flood reduction can be achieved by an adapted operation of the barrages ‒ here, the interaction with the operation of polders is also of particular interest (Dickel and Theobald, 2022).
Year: 2022