0196119 - UH-J 20003040 RIV DE eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Buchtele, Josef - Buchtelová, Marie - Herrmann, A.
Increase of large floods in Central Europe due to change in vegetation cover: Results of rainfall-runoff simulations.
Proceedings of European Conference on Advances in Flod Research. Potsdam, 2000, s. 306-314.
[European Conference on Advances in Flood Research. Potsdam (DE), 01.11.2000-03.11.2000]
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z2060917
Subject RIV: DA - Hydrology ; Limnology

The disastrous flood in the Odra and Morava River basins of Czech Republic, Poland and Germany in 1997 raised discussions about the effects of deforestation induced by acid rains and intensive agriculture (including collectivisation) on flood flows. The simulations of rainfall-runoff process carried out for basins of different size, aim on illustrating the influence of forest on runoff. Modelling rainfall-runoff process appears as a usable tool for assessing consequences of land use changes for hydrological regimes. It allows to separate the effects of climatic variability from other influencing factors. Reliable results can be obrained when different time scales and statistical analysis of simulation outputs are used. An important role was attributed to evapotranspiration which controls peak flows of flood waves considerably.
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