Widespread Risk of Extreme Precipitation and Flooding

Abstract

Developing a thorough understanding of the prevalence of natural disasters such as floods and extreme precipitation events is of high importance for the society. In this report, it is attempted to investigate and quantify the widespread risk of flood and extreme precipitation events, using statistical methods on historical flood and precipitation data from southern Norway. The use of descriptive methods and clustering revealed patterns in the geographical spread of extreme events, in-line with current process understandings from hydrology and meteorology.