The Odra/Oder flood in summer 1997 Proceedings

In Summer 1997 an extreme flood event struck the Odra/Oder river basin. The riparian states, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany, were seriously affected by the flood, in Poland and the Czech Republic to a catastrophic extent. On 18 May 1998 an expert meeting was organised in order to bring together scientists and policy-markers from the three affected countries and additional experts from various EU member states. The meeting was jointly organised by the European Commission, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Polish Academy of Science, and the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute. It was also the fifth within a series of European expert meetings and workshops on river basin modelling and flood mitigation initiated by the RIBAMOD Concerted Action of the European Commission. This volume contains the contributions of the meeting covering most of the relevant scientific areas of this catastrophic flood. It contains 16 papers spread over 4 topics: Overview, Hydro-Meteorological Conditions, Hydrologic and Hydraulic Situation, and Management and Policy Issues. (orig.)Available from TIB Hannover: RR 5801(48) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman