Andreas H. Schumann studied Hydrology and water management at the Technical University in Dresden, Germany. After his PhD in 1981 he worked several years in different water management agencies. In 1989 he went back to academia and became a Senior-Lecturer at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany. In the year 2001 he became a Full Professor for Hydrology and Water Management at this university. Many of his scientific activities were dedicated to flood research. He published more than 200 papers and is the editor of the book "Flood Risk Assessment and Management", published by Springer in 2011. After retiring in 2019, he is researching as a Senior-Professor at the Ruhr-University. He initiated the Research Unit "Space-time Dynamics of Extreme Floods" (SPATE) which was funded by the German Research Foundation from 2017 to 2023.

Summarizes the methodology of type-based flood statistics

Contains detailed examples that help the reader to understand the methodology

Includes a thorough framework for all aspects of design flood estimation

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Characterisation of Flood Events - Event Separation and Flood Typology.- Chapter 3. Univariate Flood-Type-specific Flood Statistics.- Chapter 4. Multivariate Flood-Type specific Flood Statistics under consideration of tributary impacts.- Chapter 5. Regionalisation of Flood-type specific distributions.- Chapter 6. Main applications of the new methodology.- Chapter 7. Summary and outlook.- Appendix.