Adaptation strategies to climate change for Austria's water management: Follow-up study 2024 - runoff trends

This research project is a contribution to the project: Adaptation strategies to climate change for Austria's water management: Follow-up study 2024. The contribution consists of trend analyses for floods, surface water supply and low flows, and includes literature studies, method comparison and development, and applications for approx. 800 gauging stations in Austria. Different trend analyses, which take into account serial autocorrelation of discharges, are to be evaluated comparatively and an overall statement is to be synthesised. The research question is to what extent the discharge in Austria has changed in the course of climate change and direct anthropogenic influence, and a quantification of the changes by region, season and catchment size.