Results 261 to 270 of about 25,159 (311)

A method for the assesment of coastal flood risk

IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 1993
Summary: This paper describes the development and application of a method for evaluating the risk of coastal flooding. The method defines both the area which becomes inundated by a storm of a particular severity, assuming that a sea defence fails, and the likelihood of the defence failing. The risk of flooding is expressed as a risk class: high, medium,
Reeve, D. E., Burgess, K. A.
openaire   +2 more sources

Compounding Effects of Riverine and Coastal Floods and Its Implications for Coastal Urban Flood Resilience

2020
<p>Globally more than 600 million people reside in the low elevation (< 10 meters elevation) coastal zone. The densely populated low-lying deltas are vulnerable to flooding primarily in two ways: (1) Due to extreme coastal water level (ECWL) because of either storm surges or heavy rain-induced river floods generated by a ...
Poulomi Ganguli, Bruno Merz
openaire   +1 more source

Statistics of coastal flood prevention

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Physical and Engineering Sciences, 1990
Abstract For the design of sea defences the main statistical issue is to estimate quantiles of the distribution of annual maximum sea levels for all coastal sites. Traditional procedures independently analyse data from each individual site; thus known spatial properties of the meteorological and astronomical tidal components of sea ...
Stuart G. Coles, Jonathan A. Tawn
openaire   +1 more source

Coastal City Flooding

2019
Flooding is a natural hazard that can be a not-too-threatening event or a deadly one. In more violent events, floodwaters may move in great volumes, driven by gravity, and rage through highly and densely populated regions or rural areas killing and injuring people, destroying homes, roads, bridges and other infrastructure, and crops as the waters ...
openaire   +1 more source

Coastal Floods and Climate Change

2014
The Earth has been undergoing a global warming trend since the Little Ice Age being mostly assumed to be progressively increasing along the last and a half centuries. But this secular warming and the previous Little Ice Age cold wave had precedents linked with sea level and other climatic actions.
J. Javier Diez, Efren M. Veiga, Fernando Rodriguez   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

An Assessment of Uncertainties in Coastal Flooding

2022
Growth in coastal flooding risks in recent decades has been met by significant advances both in our understanding of the processes involved and our modeling and prediction abilities. However, understanding of uncertainties and particularly the stochastic aspects of the problem have lagged. Most efforts to-date use mathematically robust approaches but
openaire   +1 more source

Coastal floods

2022
E Murphy, M Osler
openaire   +1 more source

Coastal Flood Frequency Modeling

2016
Because of the complexity of flood forecasting, hydrological models and statistical models need to be developed for flood frequency analysis, and flood forecasting. In this chapter, the performance of LP3, GEV, PL and GP models was investigated for flood frequency analysis to find the most suitable flood frequency analysis method in the Oak Ridges ...
Lei Wang, Xin Zhang
openaire   +1 more source

Joint Occurrences in Coastal Flooding

Journal of the Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Division, 1979
Extreme levels of coastal flooding arising from the joint occurrence of a rare event such as a hurricane or a tsunami with the astronomical tide have a stochastic nature resulting from the random occurrence of the primary event relative to the phase of the astronomical tide.
openaire   +1 more source

Coastal Flooding

2021
Robert V. Rohli, Chunyan Li
openaire   +1 more source