Assessing changes in urban flood vulnerability through mapping land use from historical information [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2016 This paper presents an appraisal of the temporal evolution of flood vulnerability of two French cities, Besançon and Moissac, which were largely impacted by floods in January 1910 and March 1930, respectively.
M. Boudou, B. Danière, M. Lang
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Precipitation forecasting through an analog sorting technique: a comparative study [PDF]
Advances in Geosciences, 2011 This study aims at comparing two quantitative precipitation forecasting techniques based on the meteorological analogy concept. Method A considers first a selection of analogous situations at synoptic scale. Second a subset of the most similar situations
A. Ben Daoud +4 more
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Assessing the simple dynamical systems approach in a Mediterranean context: application to the Ardèche catchment (France) [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2015 This study explores how catchment heterogeneity and variability can be summarized in simplified models, representing the dominant hydrological processes.
M. Adamovic +3 more
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Probabilistic precipitation and temperature downscaling of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis over France [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2016 This work proposes a daily high-resolution probabilistic reconstruction of precipitation and temperature fields in France over the 1871–2012 period built on the NOAA Twentieth Century global extended atmospheric reanalysis (20CR).
L. Caillouet +3 more
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Ensemble reconstruction of spatio-temporal extreme low-flow events in France since 1871 [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2017 The length of streamflow observations is generally limited to the last 50 years even in data-rich countries like France. It therefore offers too small a sample of extreme low-flow events to properly explore the long-term evolution of their ...
L. Caillouet +4 more
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Long term evolution of a dam reservoir subjected to regular flushing events [PDF]
Advances in Geosciences, 2014 An analysis of the long term morphological evolution of the Génissiat reservoir (France) is provided. First, a methodology for bathymetric data processing and reservoir sediment volume budget calculation is described.
L. Guertault +3 more
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Hierarchy of climate and hydrological uncertainties in transient low-flow projections [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2016 This paper proposes a methodology for estimating the transient probability distribution of yearly hydrological variables conditional to an ensemble of projections built from multiple general circulation models (GCMs), multiple statistical downscaling ...
J.-P. Vidal +4 more
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A data-based comparison of flood frequency analysis methods used in France [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2014 Flood frequency analysis (FFA) aims at estimating quantiles with large return periods for an extreme discharge variable. Many FFA implementations are used in operational practice in France.
K. Kochanek +6 more
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Future hydrological extremes: the uncertainty from multiple global climate and global hydrological models [PDF]
Earth System Dynamics, 2015 Projections of changes in the hydrological cycle from global hydrological models (GHMs) driven by global climate models (GCMs) are critical for understanding future occurrence of hydrological extremes.
I. Giuntoli +3 more
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Estimating unconsolidated sediment cover thickness by using the horizontal distance to a bedrock outcrop as secondary information [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2017 Unconsolidated sediment cover thickness (D) above bedrock was estimated by using a publicly available well database from Norway, GRANADA. General challenges associated with such databases typically involve clustering and bias.
N.-O. Kitterød +2 more
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