Abstract
ABSTRACT A rainfall–runoff model was employed to identify four major flood-generating processes corresponding to flood events identified from daily discharge data from 614 stations across Europe in the period 1961–2010: long-rain, short-rain, snowmelt, and rain-on-dry-soil flood events. Trend analyses were performed on the frequency of occurrence of each of the flood types continentally and in five geographical regions of Europe. Continentally, the annual frequency of flood events did not show a significant change over the investigation period. However, the frequency of both winter and summer long-rain events increased significantly, while that of summer snowmelt events decreased significantly. Regionally, the frequency of winter short and long-rain events increased significantly in Western Europe, while the frequency of summer snowmelt and short-rain events decreased in Northern Europe. The frequency of summer snowmelt events in Eastern Europe and winter short-rain events in Southern Europe showed a declining trend.
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