ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the collection and utilization of the AdaptAlp dataset, which gathers daily runoff series from the six countries in the Alpine region: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland. It explains the strategy used to collect data, and describes the properties of the hydrological stations forming the final dataset. The chapter describes the methods used to analyse the evolution of hydrological regimes in the Alpine region. The diversity of catchments in the dataset leads to a mixture of hydrological regimes. The trend analysis carried out on the AdaptAlp dataset included spring snowmelt-related high flows, described by hydrological indices describing the magnitude and seasonality of high flows. The work carried out by the AdaptAlp partners led to the gathering of a hydrological dataset well suited to the detection of climate-related trends in the hydrological regimes of Alpine catchments.
