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Flash floods versus river floods – a comparison of psychological impacts and implications for precautionary behaviour [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2020 River floods are among the most damaging natural hazards that frequently occur in Germany. Flooding causes high economic losses and impacts many residents. In 2016, several southern German municipalities were hit by flash floods after unexpectedly severe
J. Laudan, G. Zöller, A. H. Thieken
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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 +2 more
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Frequency and seasonality of flash floods in Slovenia [PDF]
Geographica Pannonica, 2017 The purpose of this paper is to assess and analyse the dynamics of flash flooding events in Slovenia. The paper examines in particular the frequency of flash floods and their seasonal distribution.
Trobec Tajan
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Mediterranean extreme floods and flash floods
, 2016 The Mediterranean area is particularly exposed to flash floods. Floods are weather-related hazards and their patterns are likely to be significantly affected by climate change. Floods are already the most frequent and among the costliest and deadliest natural disasters worldwide (Munich RE, NatCat Service; Swiss RE, 2015).
Gaume, Eric +5 more
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FLASH FLOODS IN THE ILIŞUA BASIN [PDF]
Aerul şi Apa: Componente ale Mediului, 2011 Flash Floods in the Ilişua Basin. The Ilişua Valley is a right tributary of the Someşu Mare Valley and has its spring in the south-western part of the Tibleş Mountains.
G. HOGNOGI, G. NICULA, GABRIELA COCEAN
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, 2022 This open access book brings together research studies, developments, and application-related flash flood topics on wadi systems in arid regions. The major merit of this comprehensive book is its focus on research and technical papers as well as case ...
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Flash floods in the Eastern Mediterranean (EM) region are considered among the most destructive natural hazards, which pose a significant challenge to model due to their high complexity.
Saed Asaly +4 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]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 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.
V. Arghiuş +3 more
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Establishing information seeking pathways in slow and flash floods [PDF]
, 2018 The purpose of this paper is to investigate information seeking behaviour of people involved in slow and flash flood disasters, specifically how they received the first alert, where they then turned for more information, and what their main sources and ...
Barbara Ryan, Ryan, Barbara
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 Compared with floods occurring over plains, alpine flash floods are formed over scattered locations with complex terrain and data is often lacking regarding the land topography, flow and sedimentation, causing difficulties when developing mathematical ...
Yufei Ding, Xingnian Liu, Ridong Chen
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