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  "abstract": "Water bodies such as lakes and reservoirs can play a crucial role in reducing estimated flood peaks, at both daily and hourly time resolution. While the effect of water bodies on flood peaks has been demonstrated in the past at different time resolutions, it remains unclear how water bodies affect the ratio between estimated daily and hourly quantiles, that is, to which degree their attenuation effect is scale dependent. Here, we analyse how water bodies influence this ratio using two approaches: (1) by comparing estimated daily and hourly flood peak quantiles upstream and downstream of reservoirs of four local case studies, and (2) by comparing daily and hourly flood peak quantiles across a large sample of catchments in Switzerland with various degrees of water-body influence. Our results show that reservoirs dampen hourly peak discharge much more strongly than daily peak discharge, which leads to similar daily and hourly flood peaks downstream of reservoirs. Specifically, our case study analysis highlights that (sub-)hourly peak discharge is attenuated by up to 70 % downstream of reservoirs during flood events with a 10-year return period. We also find that the attenuation effect is particularly pronounced in catchments that are heavily influenced by water bodies, i.e. those catchments where more than 60 % of the area contributes to water body inflow. This implies that daily flood peaks are a good proxy for hourly peaks in strongly regulated catchments in contrast to natural ones. We conclude that considering water body influence on flood peaks is crucial to understand the similarity between daily and hourly flood peaks downstream of water bodies. This suggests that water body influence should also be considered in large-sample studies for which the exact influence may be unknown, and quantified using suitable metrics such as the fraction of the total catchment above the water body.",
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    "ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)",
    "Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (Birmensdorf, Switzerland)"
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      "name": "Jonas Götte",
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      "name": "Paul C. Astagneau",
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      "name": "Manuela I. Brunner",
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  "doi": "10.5194/hess-30-6235-2026",
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  "licence": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "licence_label": "CC BY 4.0",
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  "pdf_url": "https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/30/6235/2026/hess-30-6235-2026.pdf",
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  "published": "2026-10-09",
  "publisher": "Copernicus GmbH",
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  "title": "The influence of lakes and reservoirs on estimated flood peaks at hourly vs. daily timescale in the Alps",
  "title_text": "The influence of lakes and reservoirs on estimated flood peaks at hourly vs. daily timescale in the Alps",
  "type": "peer-reviewed",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:20:36Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/0g4gvkq5batvr",
  "venue": "Hydrology and Earth System Sciences",
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