The "Prediflood" database of historical floods in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula) AD 1035–2013, and its potential applications in flood analysis [PDF]
, 2014 “Prediflood” is a database of historical floods that occurred in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula), between the 11th century and the 21st century. More than 2700 flood cases are catalogued, and more than 1100 flood events.
Ayala, Jose Luis +6 more
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Flood risk management and ‘fairness’: aspirations and reality
E3S Web of Conferences, 2016 Flood risk management in United Kingdom has been going through a process of rapid change in the last decade or so, no doubt spurred on by a series of very serious floods since the year 2000.
Penning-Rowsell Edmund C. +2 more
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Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2021 Flood havoc during 2019 in the Sangu River basin caused widespread damage to residents, crops, roads, and communications in parts of hills in Bangladesh. Developing flood hazard maps can play an essential step in risks management.
Rashed Uz Zzaman +3 more
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REMOTE SENSING MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT IN SPRING CONSIDERING IRRIGATION AREA: A CASE STUDY OF DONGLEI IRRIGATION DISTRICT (PHASE II) [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020 As one of the common natural disasters, drought is extremely destructive to agriculture. Drought has risen in recent years, so how to effectively monitor drought has become the focus of attention of relevant government departments.
H. Liu +8 more
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Assessment of flood damages and benefits of remedial actions: "What are the weak links?"; with application to the Loire [PDF]
, 1995 Flood damage models are used to determine the impact of measures to reduce damage due to river flooding. Such models are characterized by uncertainty. This uncertainty may affect the decisions made on the basis of the model outcomes.
Blois, C.J. de, Wind, H.G.
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Difficult encounters around "monkey cheeks": Farmers' interests and the design of flood retention areas in Thailand [PDF]
, 2019 Flood retention areas are being increasingly promoted for flood risk management. People living in these areas will accept them if their interests are taken into account.
Doorn‐Hoekveld W. +13 more
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Flood risk modeling of urbanized estuarine areas under uncertainty: a case study for Whitesands, UK [PDF]
, 2015 Aims: The impacts of catastrophic flooding have steadily increased over the last few decades. This work investigated the effectiveness of flood modeling, with low dimensionality models along with a wealth of soft (qualitative) and hard (quantitative ...
Koursari, Eftychia +2 more
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Historical and projected precipitation extremes over Pare watershed in Arunachal Pradesh, India
Applied Water Science, 2021 The aim of this paper is to understand the historical and future climate change situation using 15 extreme precipitation indices in the Pare watershed of Arunachal Pradesh, India.
W. R. Singh +5 more
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, 2020 Rising global temperatures will increase the number of extreme weather events, creating new challenges for cities around the world. Archaeological research on the destruction and subsequent reoccupation of ancient cities has the potential to reveal ...
Cao, J. +11 more
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Impact of Tidal Phase on Inundation and Thrust Force Due to Storm Surge
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2018 Impact of storm surge largely varies depending on the tidal phase during the landfall of a tropical cyclone. This study investigates comparative variance in inundation condition and thrust force for an identical cyclone during low tide and high tide by ...
A. S. M. Alauddin Al Azad +7 more
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