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Data collection for a damage assessment after the flash flood in Braunsbach (Germany) in May 2016

hasData_Center_Short_Name
  • Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
hasDataset_Online_Resource
hasDataset_Release_Date
  • 2017
hasDataset_Title
  • Data collection for a damage assessment after the flash flood in Braunsbach (Germany) in May 2016
hasEntry_ID
  • 10.5880/fidgeo.2017.015
hasKeyword
  • Braunsbach
  • Flash Flood
  • damage assessment
hasSummary
  • A severe flash flood event hit the town of Braunsbach (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) on the evening of May 29, 2016, heavily damaging and destroying several dozens of buildings. It was only one of several disastrous events in Central Europe caused by the low-pressure system “Elvira”. The DFG Research Training Group “Natural hazards and risks in a changing world” (NatRiskChange, GRK 2043/1) at the University of Potsdam investigated the Braunsbach flash flood. In this context damage data for 94 affected buildings, describing building characteristics, the degree of impact and the caused damage, were collected ten days after the flood event and provide the basis for damage assessment studies (Agarwal et al., 2017; Laudan et al., 2017, Vogel et al., 2017).
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