Merged Global Pluvial Floods DataBase (Input Data)

This repository contains the input data used in the Jupyter notebook downloadable from Github here.

Such input data consists in two main datasets:

• A raw (global and regional) flood reports from four different databases.
• A global daily rainfall analysis from NOAA (CPC_GLOBAL_PRCP_v1.0).

The Jupyter notebook runs a Python code that post-processes the raw flood reports, using information extracted from other datasets, to select some reports of interest (mainly regarding pluvial and flash floods). At a later stage, such reports are merged into a single database for global pluvial/flash flood reports. The Jupyter notebook also runs a Metview-Python code to visualize partial and final results as map plots.

The four original databases are:

1. FloodList, FL (Global domain): http://floodlist.com/
2. Emergency Events Database, EMDAT (Global domain): https://www.emdat.be/
3. European Severe Weather Database, ESWD (Europe): https://www.essl.org/cms/european-severe-weather-database/
4. Storm Events Database, SED (USA): https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/

NOTE: For more details about these databases (documentation, licenses, etc.), look at the README.md file.

NOTE: The data in this repository is intended for an exclusive NON-COMMERCIAL academic or personal use, and it is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License. For more information, look at the LICENSE.md file.