Almost 60% of the rivers in the northern hemisphere experience significant seasonal effects
of river ice. In many of these northern rivers, ice-jam floods (IJFs) pose serious threats to …

The protection of larger built-up areas that constitute sections of actively functioning urban
zones is a challenge, even under favourable political and economic conditions. The case of …

Delineation of flood hazard and risk on maps is useful as a means of public education and
as a basis for measures aimed at lessening future flood damages. In many northern …

This study focuses on demonstrating the multiannual patterns of cyclical fluctuations of
monthly and annual precipitation in the Polish Carpathian Mountains and their foreland. The …

Study region Poland, with the regions of Baltic Coast and Pomerania, Masuria-Podlasie,
Greater Poland, Masovia, Silesia, and Lesser Poland located in the basins of the Baltic …

The present paper reviews selected outcomes of the FLORIST project devoted to flood risk
in the region of the northern foothills of the Tatra Mountains in Poland and summarizes novel …

The study covered water resources of two mountain streams in the Polish Carpathians.
These were the Biała Woda and Czarna Woda streams, the catchments of which are …

This article studies the intra-annual and long-term variability in the maximum daily
precipitation totals and their association with atmospheric circulation in Kraków. It …

Since a large part of this book reports results of scientific research achieved within a Polish-
Swiss project, it is opportune to propose a relevant motto–a few lines written in Switzerland …

Jeśli ze swojego okna widzimy rzekę, wcześniej czy później odczujemy skutki powodzi. Nie
zawsze zagrozi ona bezpośrednio naszemu gospodarstwu, ale pośrednio będzie ona miała …