Table 2.

Number of stations used for the seasonality assessment in different countries. The first value represents the number of stations, the second the median of the record length (years) in the period 1961–2000. All stations have more than 20 years of observations and catchment size is less than 500 km².

Country	Extreme precipitation	Extreme floods
Austria	520/37	190/40
France	47/40	22/33
Germany	169/40	16a/40
Hungary	17/40	16/35
Italy	582/30	14/23
Romania	82/40	126/38
Slovakia	56/40	62/38
Switzerland	461/38	128/36
Ukraine	11/40	3/39

^aCatchments in Germany are larger than 500 km².