Examples of the great cross-border floods in Central Europe and lessons learnt (case studies: September and November 1890 on the occasion of their 120 anniversary)

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Munzar, Jan - Deutsch, M. - Ondráček, Stanislav - Kallabová, Eva
Examples of the great cross-border floods in Central Europe and lessons learnt (case studies: September and November 1890 on the occasion of their 120 anniversary).
Geophysical Research Abstracts. Viena: European Geosciences Union, 2007. Roč. 12, č. 12 (2010), s. 1-1. ISSN 1607-7962.
[European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010. 02.05.2010-07.05.2010, Wienna]
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z30860518
Keywords : cross-border floods 1890 * Central Europe * lessons learnt
Subject RIV: DA - Hydrology ; Limnology
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There is only limited knowledge about the impacts of important historic floods affecting at the same time territories of multiple countries and attempts at flood-control measures in the past. E.g. after catastrophic flood in September 1890 of European scope was issued in Bohemia in January 1891 a decree on the introduction of flood warning service on Czech rivers with instructions and a duty to send reports and warnings to Germany, too. With respect to the fact that this flood occurred on an extensive part of Europe including the Danube R., the event became the last impulse for the establishment of an integrated hydrographic service in an Austrian Monarchy in 1893. But the next important flood from the end of November 1890, which affected e.g. Ohře/Eger R. in Bohemia (and destroyed the well-known spa Carlsbad) and simultaneously Saale R. in Thuringia, is up today practically without the attention of specialists: therefore is in focus of our contribution.
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