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Long-Term Structures in Southern German Runoff Data

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Hydrological discharge time series are known to depict low-frequency oscillations, long-range statistical dependencies, and pronounced nonlinearities. A better understanding of this runoff behaviour on regional scales is crucial for a variety of water management purposes and flood risk assessments. We aimed at extracting long-term components which influence simultaneously a set of southern German runoff records.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the Bavarian Environment Agency and the Global Runoff Data Centre for providing the runoff data investigated. This work has been supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the research project “Scaling Analysis of Hydrometeorological Time Series” (grant no. 03330271).

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  1. Biogeochemical Model-Data Integration Group, Max-Planck Institut für Biogeochemie, 07701, Jena, Germany

    Miguel D. Mahecha

  2. Norsk institutt for skog og landskap, 1431, Ås, Norway

    Holger Lange

  3. Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung, 15374, Müncheberg, Germany

    Gunnar Lischeid

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  1. Klimafolgenforschung (PIK), Abt. Integrierte Systemanalyse, Potsdam Institut für, Telegraphenberg A31, Potsdam, 14412, Brandenburg, Germany

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  2. Klimafolgenforschung (PIK), Potsdam Institut für, Telegrafenberg 31 A, Potsdam, 14473, Brandenburg, Germany

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Mahecha, M.D., Lange, H., Lischeid, G. (2011). Long-Term Structures in Southern German Runoff Data. In: Kropp, J., Schellnhuber, HJ. (eds) In Extremis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14863-7_12

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