Dataset of Floods in Germany 1950-2010

<p>This is a data set comprising 29,248 flood events which were sampled from time-series of daily streamflow of 374 catchments across Germany over the period 1950-2010. The flood events were sampled by applying a Peak-Over-Threshold}approach on each catchment, separately.&nbsp;For each of the events, a set of preconditions was collected: First, preconditions in catchment averages of daily precipitation sum [mm/d], daily mean soil moisture [\%] and daily mean temperature of each flood event were sampled: Going back in time from the day of the flood event, the means of predictor values over multiple time periods, &quot;delta t&quot; = [0, 1, 3, 5, 7], were extracted. Note that P is the cumulative sum of rainfall and snowmelt. Both P and SM are model output from the &quot;Mesoscale Hydrological Model&quot; (see references below).&nbsp;Second, data on 10 catchment attributes of various types, i.e. static predictors, are included for each of the catchments. These include&nbsp;data on the average climatic conditions (aridity index, mean annual precipitation), topography (slope, elevation), geomorphology (channel slope, drainage density).</p>