Editorial for the Special Issue on “2021 Summer Floods in Europe”
SN Jonkman (TU Delft - Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk, Texas A&M University Galveston)
De Moel de Moel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Roelof Moll (TU Delft - Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk)
K. Slager (Deltares)
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Abstract
The heavy precipitation along with the river floods of July 2021 was an extreme and exceptional event in several countries in North-western Europe. It had major societal impacts in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany and was one of the most disastrous flood events in Europe of the last decades.