Occurrence of flood events in Europe 1998-2008

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Occurrence of major floods in Europe

The map shows the number of flood events in Europe from 1998 to 2008

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Last upload:

30 Sep 2008

Temporal coverage:

1998-2009

Tags:

climate change , floods , rivers

Geographic coverage:

Albania , Andorra , Armenia , Austria , Belarus , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Europe , Finland , France , Georgia , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Liechtenstein , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Macedonia (FYR) , Malta , Moldova , Monaco , Montenegro , Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , San Marino , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey , Ukraine , United Kingdom

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EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

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European Environment Agency (EEA)

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Impacts of Europe's changing climate - 2008 indicator-based assessment This report is an update and extension of the 2004 EEA Report Impacts of Europe's changing climate. The main part of this report summarises the relevance, past trends and future projections for about 40 indicators (from 22 in the 2004 report). The report also addresses adaptation and the economics of climate change impacts and adaptation strategies and policies, and data availability and uncertainty.

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19 Jun 2007 - River catchments affected by flooding (1998-2005)
04 Apr 2006 - Recurrence of flood events in Europe between 1998-2005
15 Sep 2004 - Recurrence of flood events in Europe between 1998-2002

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