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Towards a database on societal impact of Mediterranean floods in the framework of the HYMEX project

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The NW Mediterranean region experiences every year heavy rainfall and ﬂash ﬂoods that occasionally produce catastrophic damages. Less frequent are ﬂoods that affect large regions. Although a large number of databases devoted exclusively to ﬂoods or considering all kind of natural hazards do exist, usually they only record catastrophic ﬂood events. This paper deals with the new ﬂood database that is being developed within the framework of HYMEX project. Results are focused on four regions representative of the NW sector of Mediterranean Europe: Catalonia, Spain; the Balearic Islands, Spain; Calabria, Italy; and Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrenées and PACA, France. The common available 30-yr period starts in 1981 and ends in 2010. The paper shows the database structure and criteria, the comparison with other ﬂood databases, some statistics on spatial and temporal distribution, and an identiﬁcation of the most important events. The paper also provides a table that includes the date and affected region of all the catastrophic events identiﬁed in the regions of study, in order to make this information available for all audiences.

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Natural Hazards And Earth System Sciences, 2013, vol. 13, num. 5, p. 1337-1350

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cc-by (c) Llasat Botija, María del Carmen et al., 2013

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Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica)

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Towards a database on societal impact of Mediterranean floods in the framework of the HYMEX project