Improving Flood Risk Assessment on Danube River via Paleoflood Reconstructions (PaleoDanube)

Priority

Environment and culture responsible Danube region - Strengthen transnational water management and flood risk prevention

Project Idea Promoter
(name of the institution)

The Institute for Fluvial and Marine Systems

Needs and challenges
(Needs, main problems or challenges to be addressed)

Danube River is an economic, social and cultural artery of the European Union, and extreme flooding along its course
is a foremost natural hazard affecting both the economy and population. What are the climatic conditions that promote
the occurrence of

Objectives
(main and specific objectives to be achieved)

Develop new datasets for timing, frequency, and magnitude of Danube floods over the 2000 years (the Common Era)
using the sedimentary archives deposited in floodplain lakes. These data will inform a series of data-model comparison
experiments to evaluat

Main results and core outputs

1. Sedimentary flood chronologies, frequencies and magnitudes over the Common Era; 2. Reassessed recurrence
intervals for flood events using reconstructed and instrumental discharge data; 3. Assessed roles of natural modes of
past climate variability in

Main foreseen activities

1. mapping of lakes and paleolakes suitable for paleoflood reconstructions; 2. geophysical survey of lakes suitable for
paleoflood reconstructions; 3. coring and drilling of lakes selected for paleoflood reconstructions based on mapping and
geophysical

Innovative character of the project idea

Extending the flood record before the instrumental era is therefore a key need for assessing flood risks.
The extended flood time series will be open source and freely available for hydraulic and hydrological modeling for the management of ecological rec

Estimated Total Budget
(in EUR)

1 900 000

Estimated duration
(in months)

30

ERDF Partners

no

IPA Partners

no

Associated Strategic Partners

no

ERDF Partners

yes

IPA Partners

yes

Associated Strategic Partners

yes

Name

Filip Florin

Address

Str. Olari Nr.7 Sector 2 Bucharest

Country

Romania

Telephone number

0040745326544

E-mail address

felipe@ifms.org.ro

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