Supplement to: The potential of grey literature for understanding floods

Flood event documentations are a valuable data source that can be deployed for improving the understanding of floods.
This data publication is a result of the systematic search for flood relevant publications on trans-basin floods in Germany for the period 1952-2002 conducted in Uhlemann et al. (2012). It consists of two main components:
1) The entire reference database that includes the bibliographic meta-data of all publications that were identified using the search strategy with a fixed set of search terms and inclusion criteria presented in Uhlemann et al. (2012). The database is provided both as Endnote Reference Database as well as in a non-proprietary 'txt' file format.
2) The full evaluation table of the document characteristics. It includes an evaluation sheet that contains all references given in the reference database and the respective attributes that were evaluated in Uhlemann et al.(2012). Further, a table that contains the references per flood event is provided that allows to link the references to the flood events via the unique identifier per publication (the identifier is given through the reference database).
For a full disclosure of all files and attributes and for the terms of usage of this dataset please refer to the READ_ME text-file provided below.