The Panta Rhei working groups “Changes in flood risk” and “Drought in the Anthropocene” have jointly compiled and published with open access the "Panta Rhei benchmark dataset: socio-hydrological data of paired events of floods and droughts" and now want to motivate its further use! 

The data is available to the public through the GFZ Data Services (https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.4.2023.001) and the data paper is published as Kreibich et al. (2023) Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 2009–2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2009-2023. 

The dataset comprises socio-hydrological data of 45 paired events, i.e. two floods or two droughts that occurred in the same area; and it contains:
(1) detailed review-style reports about the events;
(2) key variables which characterize management shortcomings, hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and impacts of all events; and
(3)  the indicators of change that indicate the differences between the first and second event of a pair.

The dataset enables comparative analyses across all the paired events based on the indicators of change and allows for detailed context- and location-specific assessments based on the extensive data and reports. The dataset can support the development and benchmarking of socio-hydrological models and, as such, can support solving the following unsolved problem in hydrology: “How can we extract information from available data on human and water systems in order to inform the building process of socio-hydrological models and conceptualizations?” (Blöschl et al., 2019, https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2019.1620507).