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Flash Flood Impact Assessment in Jeddah City: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach

Hydrology, 2020
Floods are among the most destructive natural hazards that cost lives and disrupt the socioeconomic activities of residents, especially in the rapidly growing cities of developing countries.
Umar Lawal Dano
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Identification and quantitative analysis of flash flood risks for small catchments in China: a new operational modelling approach

LHB Hydroscience Journal, 2022
Under the influence of multiple factors, such as extreme weather conditions and human activities, flash flood disasters occur frequently in China and are very difficult to predict and anticipate.
Changjun Liu, Qiang Ma, Xiaolei Zhang, Changzhi Li, Qing Li, Philippe Gourbesville, Liang Guo, Liuqian Ding   +7 more
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Banjir Bandang di DAS Batang Kuranji Kec. Kuranji Kotapadang dengan Sistem Informasi Geografis (Sig) [PDF]

, 2013
The research aims to map hazard flash flood sand Inundation mapping the spatial distribution(affected by) flash floods and analyze the factors causing flash floods in Batang Kuranji Watershed Sub- District Kuranji Padang. The method used is a 3D analysis
Dewi, R. (Rosita), Nasrul, M. R. (M), Pelly, D. A. (Dandi), Rahman, A. (Auliya), Saputra, R. H. (Roni)   +4 more
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Towards a verifiable, uncertainty-controlled assessment of the spatiotemporal dynamics of social vulnerability to flash floods

Ecological Indicators
While research on quantitative measures of vulnerability is increasing, current studies may be criticized for failing to consider the spatiotemporal dynamics of vulnerability, ignoring uncertainty in the assessment process, and lacking validation.
Xinjun He, Yiping Fang, Baosheng Wang, Xueyuan Huang   +3 more
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Results of the post flash-flood disaster investigations in the Transylvanian Depression (Romania) during the last decade (2001–2010) [PDF]

, 2014
Flash-flood disasters are very rare in the Transylvanian Depression. In the last decades just three events were signalled in the study area, all of them during the last 10 years.
A. Ozunu, G. Roşian, I. Samara, V. Arghiuş   +3 more
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Drivers of flash floods in the Indian sub-continental river basins

npj Natural Hazards
Flash floods occur every year during the summer monsoon season in India, causing substantial damage to agriculture, infrastructure, and human life. Despite their profound implications, flash flood hotspots remain unknown, hindering adaptation efforts ...
Nandana Dilip K, Urmin Vegad, Vimal Mishra   +2 more
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Anatomy of extraordinary rainfall and flash flood in a Dutch lowland catchment [PDF]

, 2011
On 26 August 2010 the eastern part of The Netherlands and the bordering part of Germany were struck by a series of rainfall events lasting for more than a day. Over an area of 740 km2 more than 120 mm of rainfall were observed in 24 h. This extreme event
Brauer, C.C., Hazenberg, P., Overeem, A., Teuling, R., Uijlenhoet, R., Velde, Y., van der, Warmerdam, P.M.M.   +6 more
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Impact of rainfall spatial variability on Flash Flood Forecasting [PDF]

, 2014
According to the United States National Hazard Statistics database, flooding and flash flooding have caused the largest number of deaths of any weather-related phenomenon over the last 30 years (Flash Flood Guidance Improvement Team, 2003).
Douinot, Audrey, Garambois, Pierre-André, Larnier, Kévin, Roux, Hélène   +3 more
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Flash Flood Susceptibility Assessment Based on Geodetector, Certainty Factor, and Logistic Regression Analyses in Fujian Province, China

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
Flash floods are one of the most frequent natural disasters in Fujian Province, China, and they seriously threaten the safety of infrastructure, natural ecosystems, and human life.
Yifan Cao, Hongliang Jia, Junnan Xiong, Weiming Cheng, Kun Li, Quan Pang, Zhiwei Yong   +6 more
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Risk-based methodology for parameter calibration of a reservoir flood control model [PDF]

, 2013
Flash floods are of major relevance in natural disaster management in the Mediterranean region. In many cases, the damaging effects of flash floods can be mitigated by adequate management of flood control reservoirs.
Bianucci, Sandra Paola, García-Palacios, Jaime H., Garrote de Marcos, Luis, Mediero Orduña, Luis Jesús, Pérez Díaz, Juan Ignacio, Sordo Ward, Álvaro Francisco   +5 more
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