Spatial counterfactuals of the July 2021 flood in the Ahr valley, Germany

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This dataset comprises gridded precipitation fields, simulated hourly discharge values and simulated inundation areas and depths in the Ahr catchment in Germany for the reference scenario of the July 2021 flood and 25 spatial counterfactuals. The precipitation dataset contains the observed gridded E-OBS precipitation field and 25 counterfactuals shifted by one cell. Subsequently, the reference scenario and spatial counterfactuals are used as atmospheric forcing for the mesoscale hydrological model mHM set up and calibrated for the Ahr catchment, Germany. The model simulates hourly discharge series at seven gauge locations (Müsch, Kirmutscheid, Niederadenau, Denn, Kreuzberg, Altenahr, Bad Bodendorf) from which the event peak flows and flood event volumes can be derived. These discharge data is used as boundary condition for the RIM2D hydrodynamic inundation model which simulates inundation areas and maximum inundation depths along the Ahr valley between Müsch and Sinzig for the reference scenario and spatial counterfactuals.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.RDOQ.2025.002
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2024-97
Related Identifier Cites https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JD028200
Related Identifier Cites https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129640
Related Identifier Cites https://doi.org/10.13031/2013.26773
Metadata Access http://doidb.wdc-terra.org/oaip/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:doidb.wdc-terra.org:8114
Provenance
Creator Vorogushyn, Sergiy ORCID logo; Han, Li ORCID logo; Apel, Heiko (ORCID: 0000-0002-8852-652X); Nguyen, Viet-Dung ORCID logo; Guse, Björn ORCID logo; Guan, Xiaoxiang ORCID logo; Rakovec, Oldrich ORCID logo; Najafi, Husain ORCID logo; Samaniego, Luis ORCID logo; Merz, Bruno ORCID logo
Publisher GFZ Data Services
Contributor Vorogushyn, Sergiy
Publication Year 2025
Rights CC BY 4.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact Vorogushyn, Sergiy (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany)
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Geosciences
Spatial Coverage Gauge Altenahr (Aar); Gauge Bad Bodendorf (Aar); Gauge Denn (Staffelerbach); Gauge Kirmutscheid (Trierbach); Gauge Kreuzberg (Sahrbach); Gauge Müsch (Aar); Gauge Niederadenau (Adenauerbach)