DATASET

Retrospective flood analysis in Luxembourg, July 2021 (2022-10-11)

Collection: CEMS-RRM : CEMS Risk and Recovery Mapping 

Description


Activation date: 2022-10-11
Event type: Other

Activation reason:


The CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard has been activated for a retrospective assessment of an extreme flooding across Western Europe in summer 2021, which had devastating impacts on Luxembourg. Institute MeteoLux, the Luxembourgish meteorological institute, reported torrential rains broke two records for the month of July at the weather station at Luxembourg-Findel Airport. The maximum precipitation in 12 hours and 24 hours reached accumulations of 74.2 mm and 79.4 mm, beating the previous records set on 22 July 2016 of 60.4 mm / 70.6 mm. Flooding was recorded on almost all water bodies in Luxembourg. Particularly affected were the localities along the rivers Alzette and the lower Sauer. According to the Luxemburgish Water Management Agency, the one hundred year high water mark was exceeded at nine gauging stations all over the country.The evidence of flood within Sentinel-1 images led to focus the analysis on two AOIs: AOI01-Mersch and AOI02-Bettembourg.A hydraulic modelling approach has been adopted to provide the temporal analysis of the occurred flood event (P06 product) in terms of maximum flood extent, maximum water depth, and flood temporal evolution estimated during the period 15 July 2021 – 17 July 2021. The model has been calibrated using two P04-Flood delineation products depicting the flood footprint extracted from Sentinel-1 acquisitions taken on the 15 July (579.6 ha in AOI01 and 576.2 ha in AOI02) and 16 July 2021 (317.4 ha in AOI01 and 229.2 ha in AOI02).The maximum flood extent retrieved from the hydraulic modelling is 4,729.5 ha in AOI01 and 2,100.5 ha in  AOI02. The water depth range has been estimated between 0.25 m and 2.5 m on both AOIs.The impact assessment analyses on assets and population has been performed based on the available reference data (i.e., transportation and building footprints) as derived from OpenStreetMap (OSM), the GlobeLand30 dataset, and the population information provided by the WorldPop dataset. The product has been delivered by reporting, in tabular form, the impacts of the maximum flood extent provided by the P06 product.

Contact

Email
jrc-ems-rapidmapping (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2022): Retrospective flood analysis in Luxembourg, July 2021 (2022-10-11). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/781aa5b1-6b0e-42c5-a0d9-46aafd84d1f7

Keywords

CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Risk and Recovery Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency EMSN139 LUX Luxembourg Mapping Other Risk and Recovery Mapping Emergency Management

Data access

Copernicus EMS Risk and Recovery Mapping Activation [EMSN139]: Retrospective flood analysis in Luxembourg, July 2021 (2022-10-11)
URL 
  • Maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Risk and Recovery Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant geodatabase (GDB) and complete final report as well.

Spatial coverage

Type Value
GML
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GML
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WKT
POLYGON ((5.835 49.77302, 6.30695 49.77302, 6.30695 49.48081, 5.835 49.48081, 5.835 49.77302))

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Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2022-12-10
Modified date
2022-12-10
Issued date
2022-10-11
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSN139 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/781aa5b1-6b0e-42c5-a0d9-46aafd84d1f7
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