Impact forecasting to support emergency management of natural hazards

B Merz, C Kuhlicke, M Kunz, M Pittore… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Forecasting and early warning systems are important investments to protect lives, properties,
and livelihood. While early warning systems are frequently used to predict the magnitude …

Advances and gaps in the science and practice of impact‐based forecasting of droughts

A Shyrokaya, F Pappenberger… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in impact modeling and numerical weather forecasting have allowed accurate
drought monitoring and skilful forecasts that can drive decisions at the regional scale. State …

Europe under multi-year droughts: how severe was the 2014–2018 drought period?

V Moravec, Y Markonis, O Rakovec… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent dry and warm years in Europe are often assessed as extreme in terms of socio-
economic and environmental losses. However, the impact of a drought is a function of its …

Evaluating the performance of random forest for large-scale flood discharge simulation

L Schoppa, M Disse, S Bachmair - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
The machine learning algorithm 'random forest'has been applied in many areas of water
resources research including discharge simulation. Due to low setup and operation cost …

Examining LightGBM and CatBoost models for wadi flash flood susceptibility prediction

M Saber, T Boulmaiz, M Guermoui… - Geocarto …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study presents two machine learning models, namely, the light gradient boosting
machine (LightGBM) and categorical boosting (CatBoost), for the first time for predicting …

Explainable machine learning for the prediction and assessment of complex drought impacts

B Zhang, FKA Salem, MJ Hayes, KH Smith… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Drought is a common and costly natural disaster with broad social, economic, and
environmental impacts. Machine learning (ML) has been widely applied in scientific …

[HTML][HTML] Regional variations in the link between drought indices and reported agricultural impacts of drought

DJ Parsons, D Rey, M Tanguy, IP Holman - Agricultural systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Drought has wide ranging impacts on all sectors. Despite much effort to identify the best
drought indicator to represents the occurrence of drought impacts in a particular sector, there …

Application of machine learning and process-based models for rainfall-runoff simulation in Dupage River basin, Illinois

A Bhusal, U Parajuli, S Regmi, A Kalra - Hydrology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rainfall-runoff simulation is vital for planning and controlling flood control events. Hydrology
modeling using Hydrological Engineering Center—Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC …

Enhancing flood risk assessment through integration of ensemble learning approaches and physical-based hydrological modeling

M Saber, T Boulmaiz, M Guermoui… - … , Natural Hazards and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study aims to examine three machine learning (ML) techniques, namely random forest
(RF), LightGBM, and CatBoost for flooding susceptibility maps (FSMs) in the Vietnamese Vu …

Improvement of integrated watershed management in Indonesia for mitigation and adaptation to climate change: A review

TM Basuki, HYSH Nugroho, Y Indrajaya, IB Pramono… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate change is a major challenge for Indonesia due to its impact on food, water, energy
sustainability, and environmental health. Almost all Indonesian regions are exposed to …