Print Email Facebook Twitter Rotterdam and surroundings hit by extreme rainfall, October 2013 Title Rotterdam and surroundings hit by extreme rainfall, October 2013 Author Ten Veldhuis, J.A.E. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Water Management Date 2014-12-31 Abstract On the 12th and 13rd of October, a heavy rainfall event hit the West of the Netherlands and caused flooding especially in the region around Rotterdam-Rijnmond (figure 2). The KNMI meteorological station at Rotterdam airport registered 64.1 mm on 12-13 October, while some areas in Rotterdam and the surrounding region received more than 100 mm in 24 hours (figure 1). Prolonged rainfall over the period 10 – 14 October amounted to between 150 and 200 mm in some areas. Let’s have a look at how extreme this event really was, what damage occurred and what was done to prevent it. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:197384bd-8d84-4424-a896-a2fe615d2272 Publisher Student Society of Water Management of the TU Delft Source Druppel; magazine of the Student Society of Water Management of the TU Delft, 24.2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2014 Ten Veldhuis, J.A.E. Files PDF 305586.pdf 1.02 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:197384bd-8d84-4424-a896-a2fe615d2272/datastream/OBJ/view