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2021 UK floods: improvements and recommendations from the flood forecasting centre

open access: yesHydrology Research, 2023
In recognition of the increased risk to national resilience from flooding, we provide an overview of recent and future improvements to flood risk forecasting and communication at the Flood Forecasting Centre (FFC).
Charles Pilling   +5 more
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2021 UK floods: event summaries and reflections from the Flood Forecasting Centre

open access: yesHydrology Research, 2023
Flooding in 2021 has highlighted the increased risk to national resilience. This is against a backdrop of the UK climate projected to become more extreme over the next few decades.
Charles Pilling   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stochastic generation of spatially coherent river discharge peaks for continental event-based flood risk assessment [PDF]

open access: yesNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2019
We present a new method to generate spatially coherent river discharge peaks over multiple river basins, which can be used for continental event-based probabilistic flood risk assessment.
D. Diederen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrated Flood Forecasting and Warning System against Flash Rainfall in the Small-Scaled Urban Stream

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2020
The flood forecasting and warning system enable an advanced warning of flash floods and inundation depths for disseminating alarms in urban areas. Therefore, in this study, we developed an integrated flood forecasting and warning system combined inland ...
Jung Hwan Lee   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flood vulnerability assessment in the Jamuna river floodplain using multi-criteria decision analysis: A case study in Jamalpur district, Bangladesh

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Flood is one of the most common hazards in many countries, affecting both life and properties. The recent climatic changes have brought a rise in both flood frequency and intensity making this phenomenon more devastating to people.
Khadiza Tul Kobra Nahin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

ReAFFIRM: Real-time Assessment of Flash Flood Impacts: a Regional high-resolution Method [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Flash floods evolve rapidly in time, which poses particular challenges to emergency managers. One way to support decision-making is to complement models that estimate the flash flood hazard (e.g.
Berenguer Ferrer, Marc   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Evaluating 2021 extreme flash flood of Teesta River

open access: yesHydrology Research, 2023
Due to global warming, extreme hydroclimatic events (e.g., floods) are expected to happen more frequently and last longer. This study investigated such an extreme flood in the transboundary Teesta River that occurred in October 2021.
Shampa   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of seasonal flow outlook model for Ganges-Brahmaputra Basins in Bangladesh [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2016
Bangladesh is crisscrossed by the branches and tributaries of three main river systems, the Ganges, Bramaputra and Meghna (GBM). The temporal variation of water availability of those rivers has an impact on the different water usages such as ...
S. Hossain   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of selected planned adaptations in micro level: Evidence from coastal community in Bangladesh

open access: yesProgress in Disaster Science, 2021
A community level field survey is conducted in the coastal zone of Bangladesh to assess the effectiveness of five selected planned adaptations against storm surge in micro scale which are already proved effective in macro scale. The five selected planned
Md. Rayhanur Rahman   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flood risk management in Flanders: past developments and future challenges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper presents the state of the art of flood risk management in Flanders, a low-lying region in the northern part of Belgium which is vulnerable to flooding.
De Maeyer, Philippe   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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