Manuela Nied

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contrast traditional views with broader perspectives that are emerging from an improved understanding of the climatic context of floods, and they come to the following conclusions: (1) extending the traditional system boundaries (local catchment, recent decades, hydrological/hydraulic processes) opens up exciting possibilities for better understanding and improved tools for flood risk assessment and management.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of pre-event soil moisture as an indicator of hydrological pre-conditions, on the link between weather patterns and flood occurrence is investigated, and flood types are identified and linked to soil moisture and weather patterns.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated water percolation through epikarst by monitoring water flow into a cave and conducting artificial irrigation and tracer experiments, at Sif Cave in Wadi Sussi, Israel from 2005 through 2007.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of hydrological pre-conditions and meteorological conditions on different flood characteristics, and concluded that soil moisture patterns as well as weather patterns are not only beneficial to inform on possible flood occurrence but also on the involved flood processes and resulting flood characteristics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed classifying soil moisture as a key variable of pre-event catchment conditions and investigating the link between soil moisture patterns and flood occurrence in the Elbe River basin.