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Floods are among the most common natural disasters responsible for severe damages and human losses. Numerically produced data, managed by user-friendly tools for geographically referenced data, have been adopted to increase preparedness and reduce vulnerabilities. This paper describes the locally sensed and numerically produced data that characterize a flood event that occurred in February 2016 in the Portuguese Águeda River, referred to as Agueda.2016Flood for short. The data were managed through the RiverCure portal, a collaborative web platform connected to a validated shallow-water model featuring modelled dynamic bed geometries and sediment transport. The dataset provides a synthesis of topo-bathymetric, hydrometric and numerically produced data from a calibrated hydrodynamic model. Due to the lack of measured hydrometric data near the city, the numerically produced data are crucial for a complete description of the flood event. The Agueda.2016Flood dataset constitutes a complete validation test for flood forecasting models and a tool to better mitigate floods in this river and in similar rivers. Thus, Agueda.2016Flood is a relevant dataset for Águeda River stakeholders as well as for the community of flood modellers, as it provides a well-documented validation event for forecasting tools. The dataset can be accessed at 10.4211/hs.937927473a3a4e66a07a2e2fdd9d581e (Ricardo et al., 2024). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Floods are among the most common natural disasters responsible for severe damages and human losses. Combining numerical modelling with user-friendly tools for geographically referenced data has been adopted to increase preparedness and reduce vulnerabilities. This paper describes the numerical dataset of hydrometric variables that characterize a flood event occurred in February 2016 in the Portuguese Águeda river, shortly defined as Agueda.2016Flood. The dataset was numerically produced and managed through the RiverCure Portal, a collaborative web platform connected to a validated shallow-water model featuring modelled dynamic bed geometries and sediment transport. The dataset Agueda.2016Flood can be used as a starting point to design other experiments and tools, and to learn and apply the proposed approach by directly using the RiverCure Portal. This dataset includes modelled hydrodynamic data (output data) and the topographic, geometrical, land-use and hydrologic data (input data) necessary to carry out the numerical simulation of the flood event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]