Brief communication: Critical infrastructure impacts of the 2021 mid-July western European flood event

E Koks, K Van Ginkel, M Van Marle… - Natural Hazards and …, 2021 - nhess.copernicus.org
Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands were hit by extreme precipitation and flooding in
July 2021. This Brief Communication provides an overview of the impacts to large-scale …

Surprise floods: the role of our imagination in preparing for disasters

J Ommer, J Neumann, M Kalas… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2024 - nhess.copernicus.org
What's the worst that could happen? After a flood has devastated communities, those
affected, the news media, and the authorities often say that what happened was beyond our …

Spatial and temporal evolution of post-disaster data for damage assessment of civil infrastructure systems

JM Lozano, E Nichols, JD Frost… - … , Natural Hazards and Risk, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Assessing damage to civil infrastructure is a resource-intensive process that is critical during
the response to a disaster. Various datasets facilitate this process but are often collected on …

Evaluation of the high-energy flood of mid-July 2021 as a morphologic driver in the anthropogenically developed Ahr Valley, Germany, in interaction with …

S Wolf, N Stark, I Holste, F Lehmkuhl, W Römer… - Environmental Sciences …, 2024 - Springer
Background This study explores morphologic changes in the Ahr River, Germany, caused by
the high-energy flood in mid-July 2021. This study aims to assess the flood's significance as …

Remote sensing‐based mapping of structural building damage in the Ahr valley

G Samprogna Mohor, T Sieg, O Koch… - Journal of Flood Risk …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Flood damage data are needed for various applications. Structural damage of buildings can
reflect not only the economic damage but also the life‐threatening condition of a building …

Evaluation of the High-Energy-Flood of mid-July 2021 as a Morphologic Driver in the Ahr Valley

S Wolf, N Stark, I Holste, F Lehmkuhl, W Römer… - 2023 - researchsquare.com
Background: This study explores morphologic changes in the Ahr River, Germany, caused
by the high-energy flood in mid-July 2021. Infrastructure systems influence river morphology …

Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Damage and its Impacts on Critical Community Infrastructure during the 2021 Western European Floods: The Case Study of …

A Lemnitzer, M Gardner, N Stark, E Nichols, M George… - 2023 - par.nsf.gov
Floods, often triggered by heavy rainfall or snowmelt, are the most common natural disasters
worldwide. The 2021 Western European Floods (Germany, Netherlands, Belgium) provided …

Experimental velocity profile distribution characterization of mountain rivers

B Marin-Esteve - 2023 - upcommons.upc.edu
(English) The aim of this thesis is to improve our understanding of the behaviour of mountain
rivers and to predict their morphological functioning under conditions of low relative …

[PDF][PDF] Morphologic interaction of bridges during high-energy flood events by the example of the flood of mid-July 2021 in the Ahr Valley, Germany

S Wolf, L Burghardt, N Stark, A Ahlswede… - 2024 - meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
In mid-July 2021, heavy rainfall led to severe flash floods in the Eifel-mountain region in
western Germany. The Ahr River, a tributary to the Rhine River in Rhineland-Palatinate, was …