Lars A. Roald
Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
12 Papers
37 Citations
Lars A. Roald is an academic researcher from Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate. The author has contributed to research in topics: Flood myth & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 12 publications.
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Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years
Günter Blöschl,Andrea Kiss,Alberto Viglione,Mariano Barriendos,Oliver Böhm,Rudolf Brázdil,Rudolf Brázdil,Denis Coeur,Gaston R. Demarée,Maria Carmen Llasat,Neil Macdonald,Dag Retsö,Lars A. Roald,Petra Schmocker-Fackel,Inês Amorim,Monika Bělínová,Gerardo Benito,Chiara Bertolin,Dario Camuffo,Daniel Cornel,Radosław Doktor,Libor Elleder,Silvia Enzi,João Carlos Garcia,Rüdiger Glaser,Julia Hall,Klaus Haslinger,Michael Hofstätter,Jürgen Komma,Danuta Limanówka,David Lun,Andrei Panin,Andrei Panin,Juraj Parajka,Hrvoje Petrić,Fernando S. Rodrigo,Christian Rohr,Johannes Schönbein,Lothar Schulte,Luís Pedro Silva,Willem H. J. Toonen,Peter Valent,Peter Valent,Jürgen Waser,Oliver Wetter +44 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the past three decades were among the most flood- rich periods in Europe in the past 500 years, and that this period differs from other flood-rich periods in terms of its extent, air temperatures and flood seasonality.
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Documentary evidence of past floods in Europe and their utility in flood frequency estimation
Thomas Kjeldsen,Neil Macdonald,Michel Lang,Luis Mediero,Teresa Albuquerque,Ewa Bogdanowicz,Rudolf Brázdil,Attilio Castellarin,Václav David,Anne K. Fleig,Gülay Onuşluel Gül,Jurate Kriauciuniene,Silvia Kohnová,Bruno Merz,Oliver Nicholson,Lars A. Roald,Jose Luis Salinas,Diana Sarauskiene,Mojca Šraj,Witold G. Strupczewski,Ján Szolgay,Antonis Toumazis,Wouter Vanneuville,Noora Veijalainen,Donna Wilson +24 more
TL;DR: The conclusion is that there is considerable potential for improving the reliability of the current flood risk assessments by harvesting the valuable information on past extreme events contained in the historical data sets.
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Historical Floods in Europe in the Past Millennium
Rudolf Brázdil,Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz,Gerardo Benito,Gaston R. Demarée,Neil Macdonald,Lars A. Roald +5 more
- 01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: The role and value of floods described in the documentary record to better understand current flood risks in Europe are discussed in this paper, where basic sources of documentary evidence related to floods and problems that may be encountered in the use of historical source materials are described.
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Snow cover and snow water equivalent in Norway: -current conditions (1961-1990) and scenarios for the future (2071-2100)
Dagrun Vikhamar Schuler,Stein Beldring,Eirik J. Førland,Lars A. Roald,Torill Engen Skaugen +4 more
- 01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: Forland et al. as mentioned in this paper presented projected changes in snow conditions in Norway and described possible changes from presentclimate (1961-1990) to future climate (2071-2100) are described.
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