Documentation of flood damage on railway infrastructure - Lakeside ...

Criteria Catalogue: Event Information II
River name
[Text]
Official name <strong>of</strong> river inducing <strong>damage</strong>
OR
List <strong>of</strong> choices
Damage triggering or amplifying characteristics
Probability <strong>of</strong> local event
List <strong>of</strong> multiple choices
- Uncontrolled breach <strong>of</strong> levee, dam etc.
- Controlled <strong>flood</strong>ing (polder)
- Morphological change <strong>of</strong> river channel
- Log jam and backwater
-Ice dam
-Other
Explanations [Text]
[Ordinal scale]
1: very <strong>of</strong>ten
2: <strong>of</strong>ten
3: occasionally
4: seldom
5: very seldom
6: First time observation
Further events triggering or amplifying <strong>damage</strong>
e.g. Explanation <strong>of</strong> “other”
Classification <strong>of</strong> events according to occurrence intervals
based on hazard maps or statistical analyses <strong>of</strong> run<strong>of</strong>f
data for respective river segments
Average event occurrence 1-2 years or more <strong>of</strong>ten
Average event occurrence 2-10 years
Average event occurrence 10-50 years
Average event occurrence 50 – 100 years
Average event occurrence < 100 years
Such an event was observed for the first time
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