COLLECTION

River Flood Hazard and flood event catalogue at European and Global Scale

Acronym: FLOODS

Description

This collection contains datasets of river flood hazard maps for Europe and the World of different magnitude (from 1-in-10-year to 1-in-500-year return periods). Furthermore, this collection contains a catalogue of satellite-derived flood events across Europe over the period 2015-2024.

The river flood hazard maps have been developed using hydrological and hydrodynamic models, driven by the climatological data of the European and Global Flood Awareness Systems (EFAS and GloFAS) of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS). The catalogue of satellite-derived flood events across Europe has been derived using as input data of the Global Flood Monitoring product of CEMS.

More information can be found in the references mentioned in the description of each dataset. The datasets are created as part of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service.

Contact

Email
Peter.SALAMON (at) ec.europa.eu

Datasets (3)

DATASET | Last updated:
Satellite-derived flood depth maps for Europe

The dataset contains a catalogue of satellite-derived flood depth maps across Europe over the period 2015-2024 at 20m spatial resolution. The results rely on the systematic identif...

DATASET | Last updated:
Global river flood hazard maps

The global river flood hazard maps are a gridded data set representing inundation along the river network, for seven different flood return periods (from 1-in-10-years to 1-in-500-...

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2018-12-14
Modified date
2025-11-21
Landing page
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-topic/floods