Overview and classification ot historicaI floods In the Otava river basin

Abstract

The paper collects au fundamental data on hydrometeorological causes and development of twelve major floods on the Otava river in 1888-2002. All events were selected according to peak flow values exceeding the ten-year-flood discharge as recorded in the Písek water gauge station. For each hood, the paper speciffies the route of the driving air pressure formation, rainfall spatial distribution and volume, river basin saturation prior to the hood, and the Otava flow hydrograph recorded in the Písek station. The overall analysis of all features describes the most distinctive characteristics of the Otava major floods triggering mechanism