Concepedia

Historical Floods

Historical Floods is a scholarly construct in climate history that refers to documented or reconstructed instances of fluvial, pluvial, or coastal inundation events occurring in past periods, distinguished by their reliance on historical records, proxy data, or archival evidence to inform hydrological and climatological analyses.

620

Publications

32.4K

Citations

1.6K

Authors

694

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

174

Variants

Historical Flood Events

Parents

Publications

620

Climate Change, Atmospheric Rivers, and Floods in California - A Multimodel Analysis of Storm Frequency and Magnitude Changes1

Michael D. Dettinger · JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association · 2011 · 580 citations

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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

Tri Watkins, John Barry · The Arkansas Historical Quarterly · 1998 · 472 citations

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Declining vulnerability to river floods and the global benefits of adaptation

Brenden Jongman, Hessel Winsemius, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · 471 citations · Full text

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Flood frequency in China's Poyang Lake region: trends and teleconnections

David Shankman, Barry D. Keim, Jie Song · International Journal of Climatology · 2006 · 361 citations

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Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years

Günter Blöschl, Andrea Kiss, Alberto Viglione et al. · Nature · 2020 · 336 citations · Full text

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1–5 of 620

Authors

1.6K

  1. VR
    Victor R. Baker

    University of Arizona, United States

    14 publications · 1.1K citations

    14

    h-index

  2. MB
    Mariano Barriendos

    Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

    13 publications · 1.2K citations

    13

    h-index

  3. GB
    Gerardo Benito

    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain

    13 publications · 1.5K citations

    13

    h-index

  4. RB
    Rudolf Brázdil

    Masaryk University, Czechia

    10 publications · 1.1K citations

    10

    h-index

  5. MC
    María Carmen Llasat

    Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

    10 publications · 1.1K citations

    10

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1–5 of 1.6K

Institutions

694

  1. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    19 h-index

    37 publications

    3.8K citations

  2. Universitat de Barcelona

    Barcelona, Spain

    19 h-index

    40 publications

    4.3K citations

  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    16 h-index

    42 publications

    1.9K citations

  4. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    14 h-index

    18 publications

    1.1K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    11 h-index

    39 publications

    3.4K citations

  6. Masaryk University

    Brno, Czechia

    11 h-index

    22 publications

    2.3K citations

  7. University of Bern

    Bern, Switzerland

    10 h-index

    20 publications

    1.9K citations

  8. Université Grenoble Alpes

    Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France

    9 h-index

    11 publications

    798 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Hydrology

    30 publications · 1.7K citations

    22

    h-index

  2. Natural hazards and earth system sciences

    22 publications · 1.3K citations

    20

    h-index

  3. Hydrology and earth system sciences

    22 publications · 1.5K citations

    20

    h-index

  4. Water Resources Research

    21 publications · 1.5K citations

    20

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  5. Hydrological Sciences Journal

    15 publications · 1.4K citations

    14

    h-index

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