Table 1 The GFPLAIN250m dataset of Earth’s floodplains.

From: GFPLAIN250m, a global high-resolution dataset of Earth’s floodplains

Continent

f p

[km2]

f pr

[−]

Europe

806525

0.08

Africa

3853197

0.13

North America

1482914

0.06

South America

2931955

0.16

Asia

3452714

0.08

Oceania

866834

0.10

  1. The floodplain areas are estimated at the continental scale. Estimated variables are: Total floodplain area or fp [km2]; and floodplain area divided by total continental area, the floodplain ratio or fpr [−].
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