Atmospheric precipitations and inundations in the Moldavian Plain

One of the major challenges of this century is represented by climatic changes and their influence upon the environment.Climatic change at global or local level represent a major problem and induce concern among researchers from various disciplines (meteorology, climatology, geomorphology, ecology, hydrology, biology, medicine, sociology etc.) in consideration of change that might produce major setbacks in all the life domains and the socio-economic activities. In the Moldavian Plain, due to the torrential character of most of the rivers, maximum discharge risk management is still difficult for the tributary/secondary streams. Even if the Jijia watershed, with the main stream of the Moldavian Plain, dispalys numerous water storages,being one of the most systematized hydrographic basins, with tens of kilometers of dams and enbankments, the risks of maximum channel discharge and hillside discharge is still present. Although floods are natural phenomena, with time repetability, as discharge processes along riverbeds, inundations represent, in modern times, one of the main causes of human and material losses.