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A Study on the Zoning Method of Flash Flood Control for Mountainous Cities: A Case Study of Yunnan Province

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Flash floods are the most serious natural disasters in China and seriously affect its social and economic development. The transformation of the underlying surface caused by urbanization also brings new challenges to the prevention and control of flash ...
Zhixiong Zhang   +3 more
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The Community – Based Flood Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) in Beringin Watershed in Semarang City [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Population growth in Semarang city is certainly increasing land demand for settlement. Limited land and weak regulation enforcement of land control trigger the land use change including the watershed area.
Hidayati, Itsna Yuni   +3 more
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Longitudinal stage profiles forecasting in rivers for flash floods [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Copyright © 2010 Elsevier. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Hydrology. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and ...
Albert S. Chen   +24 more
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Low-Cost Solutions for Assessment of Flash Flood Impacts Using Sentinel-1/2 Data Fusion and Hydrologic/Hydraulic Modeling: Wadi El-Natrun Region, Egypt

open access: yesAdvances in Civil Engineering, 2020
Flash floods are among the most common natural hazards in Egyptian and Arabian deserts. In this work, we utilized two Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite images, before and after the flash flood, SRTM, and geolocated terrestrial photos captured by ...
Mohammed Sadek   +7 more
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Numerical Investigation of a Flash Flood Process that Occurred in Zhongdu River, Sichuan, China

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2021
In 2018, a flash flood occurred in the Zhongdu river, which lies in Yibin, Sichuan province of China. The flood caused many casualties and significant damage to people living nearby.
Qingyuan Yang   +4 more
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Development of a precipitation–area curve for warning criteria of short-duration flash flood [PDF]

open access: yesNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2018
This paper presents quantitative criteria for flash flood warning that can be used to rapidly assess flash flood occurrence based on only rainfall estimates.
D.-H. Bae, M.-H. Lee, S.-K. Moon
doaj   +1 more source

A novel dynamic flash flood early warning framework based on distributed hydrologic modeling

open access: yesEcological Indicators
Flash flood disaster prevention urgently requires high-precision hydrological models. However, extreme weather increases the uncertainty of flash flood risks, making it difficult for existing hydrological models to accurately simulate the flash flood ...
Yiru Chen   +6 more
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Embedded Feature Selection and Machine Learning Methods for Flash Flood Susceptibility-Mapping in the Mainstream Songhua River Basin, China

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
Mapping flash flood susceptibility is effective for mitigating the negative impacts of flash floods. However, a variety of conditioning factors have been used to generate susceptibility maps in various studies.
Jianuo Li   +5 more
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Social and Hydrological Responses to Extreme Precipitations: An Interdisciplinary Strategy for Postflood Investigation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
International audienceThis paper describes and illustrates a methodology to conduct postflood investigations based on interdisciplinary collaboration between social and physical scientists.
Anquetin, S   +17 more
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The benefit of high-resolution operational weather forecasts for flash flood warning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
International audienceIn Mediterranean Europe, flash flooding is one of the most devastating hazards in terms of human life loss and infrastructures. Over the last two decades, flash floods brought losses of a billion Euros of damage in France alone. One
Anquetin, S., Thielen, J., Younis, J.
core   +3 more sources

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