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Dam break during the flood in Saxony/Germany in August 2002

The heavy rainfall event in August 2002 in Saxony/Germany caused the break of a flood retaining basin in a valley of the Erzgebirge Mountains. The rainfall event with ists hyrologic characteristics and dam break event were analysed and an outflow hydrograph was determing. The propagation of the dam break flood wave in the valleyas of the Briesnitz and Müglitz Rivers has been simulated. Calculated values were compared with some observed data.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:28528
Date January 2003
CreatorsBornschein, Antje, Pohl, Reinhard
PublisherTechnische Universität Dresden
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:conferenceObject, info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject, doc-type:Text
SourceXXX. IAHR Congress Proceedings, Thessaloniki, Greece, August 2003
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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