This paper discusses the state of European research in historical climatology. This field of
science and an overview of its development are described in detail. Special attention is …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses a necessary task for assessing to which degree
the industrial period is unusual against the background of pre-industrial climate variability. It …

This is the second edition of Climate Time Series Analysis which was first published in 2010.
In this digital age, a second edition means not that the first edition of a book has been sold …

The catastrophic floods recently occurring in Europe warn of the critical need forhydrologic
data on floods over long-time scales. Palaeoflood techniques provideinformation on …

Extreme river floods have been a substantial natural hazard in Europe over the past
centuries, and radiative effects of recent anthropogenic changes in atmospheric composition …

Historical hydrology can be defined as a research field occupying the interface between
hydrology and history, with the objectives: to reconstruct temporal and spatial patterns of …

Anthropogenically induced climate change has been hypothesized to add to the risk of
extreme river floods because a warmer atmosphere can carry more water. In the case of the …

Records of the frequency and magnitude of floods are needed on centennial or millennial
timescales to place increases in their occurrence and intensity into a longer-term context …

The paper presents a qualitative and quantitative analysis of flood variability and forcing of
major European rivers since AD 1500. We compile and investigate flood reconstructions …

This review outlines the use of documentary evidence of historical flood events in
contemporary flood frequency estimation in European countries. The study shows that …