Flood durations and potential natural vegetation distribution on the floodplains of River Rhine and River Elbe, Germany

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Floodplains are morphologically highly heterogeneous environments with dynamically in- and decreasing water levels and flows. Strong environmental filtering through floodplain inundation creates favorable conditions for highly specialized organisms leading to high biodiversity and conservation value of floodplains. With hyd1d and hydflood we provide two R packages for simplified hydrologic modelling in two large central European floodplains – along River Rhine and River Elbe in Germany. We applied the R function hydflood::flood3 on both active floodplains covering a timespan from 1960 to 2021 and computed annual flood durations for 61 years. For two timespans (1960-1989 and 1990-2019) we aggregated the annual flood durations statistically by mean and standard deviation. Finally, we predicted potentially natural vegetation based on the mean flood duration from 1990 to 2019 and a simple reclassification model implemented in the R function hydflood::classifyToPNV. The datasets consist of 67 different raster layers (62 annual layers, 4 statistically aggregated layers and 1 layer of potential natural vegetation). They are tiled into 40 tiles along River Rhine and 49 tiles along River Elbe, resulting in a total of 5963 individual raster datasets stored in GeoTiff file format. All raster have a spatial resolution of 1 m and are stored in the coordinate reference systems ETRS 1989 UTM Zone 32 N (EPSG: 25832) for River Rhine and ETRS 1989 UTM Zone 33 N (EPSG: 25833) for River Elbe.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.948042
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.919293
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Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5675/BfG-2011
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Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecohyd.2023.04.001
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.948042
Provenance
Creator Weber, Arnd ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2022
Funding Reference Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure https://doi.org/10.13039/100008383 Crossref Funder ID M39630304065 https://download.pangaea.de/reference/115321/attachments/4_1_1.pdf ElBiota - Laterale Konnektivität und Biodiversität der Elbauen
Rights Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 41741 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (6.057W, 48.830S, 14.244E, 53.441N); Germany
Temporal Coverage Begin 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2021-12-31T00:00:00Z