Study area

The former archipelago of the mouths of River Western Scheldt, Eastern Scheldt and River Meuse. The study area in the box consists of the Dutch province of Zeeland, the western part of North Brabant and the area south of Rotterdam.

Credit: A. de Kraker, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2015

• Floods as war weapons – Humans caused a third of floods in past 500 years in SW Netherlands (9 June 2015)

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