Fig. 4: Location of sites selected for two of the most extreme regional flood events that affected Australia since 1950. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 4: Location of sites selected for two of the most extreme regional flood events that affected Australia since 1950.

From: How February 2022 redefines extreme floods in Australia

Fig. 4

Panel a shows the sites affected by the 2010 Queensland flood while Panel b focuses on the 2022 flood discussed in this paper. The red rectangle defines the spatial window associated with each regional event. Site events selected within these two regional events are coloured according to their specific instantaneous peak flow as shown in the legend. More information about each regional event can be obtained from the link to the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience44 website indicated at the bottom of each figure.

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