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Articles | Volume 386
Articles | Volume 386
https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-386-237-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-386-237-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 386
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19 Apr 2024
Post-conference publication |  | 19 Apr 2024

A tale of two floods: Hawkesbury-Nepean valley floods of February 2020 and March 2021

Wendy Sharples, Katayoon Bahramian, Kesav Unnithan, Christoph Rüdiger, Jiawei Hou, Christopher Pickett-Heaps, and Elisabetta Carrara

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Two flood events occurred in the Hawkesbury-Nepean valley in 2020 and 2021, however, the impact of each of those events was different in terms of lives lost (2 fatalities compared to none) and economic losses (more than 2 billion compared to less than 1 billion AUD). Reasons for the variation in impacts are explored by determining the inundation extents, and examining antecedent and climatic conditions. We found that antecedent conditions exerted a major control on the size of the impact.
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