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Identification of the key driving factors of flash flood based on different feature selection techniques coupled with random forest method

Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
Study region: The mountainous area of Guangdong Province, China. Study focus: A random forest coupling with feature selection (RF-FS) method framework, containing random forest coupling with shadow variable search, random forest coupling with recursive ...
X.Z. Tan, Y. Li, X.X. Wu, C. Dai, X.L. Zhang, Y.P. Cai   +5 more
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Karst flash floods: an example from the Dinaric karst (Croatia) [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2006
Flash floods constitute one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters worldwide. This paper explains the karst flash flood phenomenon, which represents a special kind of flash flood. As the majority of flash floods karst flash floods are caused by
O. Bonacci, I. Ljubenkov, T. Roje-Bonacci   +2 more
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High Risk Flash Flood Rainstorm Area Mapping And Its Application in Jiangxi Province, China

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
The leading hydrologists around the world have been working hard to develop some kind of preventive measures to reduce the disastrous consequences of a flash flood in advance.
Ding Hui, Liao Yifan, Lin Bingzhang
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Moving boulders in flash floods and estimating flow conditions using boulders in ancient deposits [PDF]

, 2016
Boulders moving in flash floods cause considerable damage and casualties. More and bigger boulders move in flash floods than predicted from published theory.
Bohorquez P., Carling P.A., Carling P.A., Chanson H., Church M, Cornish V., French A.P., Graf W.H, Komar P, Mather A.E., McComb W.D, Paterson A.R, Vallance J.W., Weir G.J.   +13 more
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A rapid and efficient method for flash flood simulation based on deep learning

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics
Among the various natural disasters, the death caused by flash flood is the highest. Recently, the combination of deep learning methods and hydrodynamic models has shown superior performance in the simulation of urban and plain areas.
Xinying Wang, Miao Xiao, Yi Liu, Jun Guo, Yangyang Qin, Yunkang Zhang   +5 more
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Fact Sheet: Floods and Flash Floods, 2009 [PDF]

, 2009
Mitigation pays. It includes any activities that prevent an emergency, reduce the chance of an emergency happening, or lessen the damaging effects of unavoidable emergencies.

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A Review of Flood Risk Assessment [PDF]

, 2016
Floods are one of the most common hazards in the world and cause loss of lives, livelihood and property destruction. The objective of this study was to review and synthesize concepts and techniques of flood hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment with ...
Ali, K. (Karamat), Bajracharya, R. M. (Roshan), Koirala, H. L. (Hriday)   +2 more
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Flash flood in Arau watershed, West Sumatera: a mitigation study

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
Flash flood often occurs in West Sumatera. In spite of heavy rain, flash floods are also caused by the landslide in the riverside that blocks the river as a natural dam. The natural dam can be broken at any time, depending on storage capacity.
Pramono Irfan, Savitri Endang
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Flash floods simulation using Saint Venant equations [PDF]

, 2007
Flash floods prediction is considered one of the important environmental issues worldwide. In order to predict when and where the flood wave will invade and attack our lives, and provide solutions to deal with this problem it is essential to develop a ...
Copeland, Graham J.M., Elhanafy, Hossam
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Flash flood detection through a multi-stage probabilistic warning system for heavy precipitation events [PDF]

, 2011
The deadly combination of short to no warning lead times and the vulnerability of urbanized areas makes flash flood events extremely dangerous for the modern society.
D. Velasco, J. Thielen, L. Alfieri
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