Solar modulation of flood frequency in central Europe during spring  and summer on interannual to multi-centennial timescales

Czymzik, Markus; Muscheler, Raimund; Brauer, Achim

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-799-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-799-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-799-2016

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Solar modulation of flood frequency in central Europe during spring and summer on interannual to multi-centennial timescales

Markus Czymzik, Raimund Muscheler, and Achim Brauer

Data sets

Occurence and thickness of flood layers in varved sediments of Lake Ammersee Czymzik, Markus; Brauer, Achim; Dulski, Peter; Plessen, Birgit; Naumann, Rudolf; von Grafenstein, Ulrich; Scheffler, Raphael http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.803369

Short summary

Integrating discharge data of the River Ammer back to 1926 and a 5500-year flood layer record from an annually laminated sediment core of the downstream Ammersee allowed investigating changes in the frequency of major floods in Central Europe on interannual to multi-centennial timescales. Significant correlations between flood frequency variations in both archives and changes in the activity of the Sun suggest a solar influence on the frequency of these hydrometeorological extremes.