Flood risk assessments at different spatial scales

H De Moel, B Jongman, H Kreibich, B Merz… - … Adaptation Strategies for …, 2015 - Springer
Managing flood risk, ie both the hazard and the potential consequences, is an important
aspect of adapting to global change and has gained much traction in recent decades. As a …

Understanding heavy tails of flood peak distributions

B Merz, S Basso, S Fischer, D Lun… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical distributions of flood peak discharge often show heavy tail behavior, that is,
extreme floods are more likely to occur than would be predicted by commonly used …

GIS-based comparative assessment of flood susceptibility mapping using hybrid multi-criteria decision-making approach, naïve Bayes tree, bivariate statistics and …

SA Ali, F Parvin, QB Pham, M Vojtek, J Vojteková… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Flood is a devastating natural hazard that may cause damage to the environment
infrastructure, and society. Hence, identifying the susceptible areas to flood is an important …

GIS-based MCDM–AHP modeling for flood susceptibility mapping of arid areas, southeastern Tunisia

D Souissi, L Zouhri, S Hammami… - Geocarto …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Floods are considered as a major natural disaster due to their devastating effects that lead to
socio-economic losses. The present study is an attempt to prepare a flood hazard …

Flood susceptibility mapping using a novel ensemble weights-of-evidence and support vector machine models in GIS

MS Tehrany, B Pradhan, MN Jebur - Journal of hydrology, 2014 - Elsevier
Flood is one of the most devastating natural disasters that occur frequently in Terengganu,
Malaysia. Recently, ensemble based techniques are getting extremely popular in flood …

Flood hazard zoning in Yasooj region, Iran, using GIS and multi-criteria decision analysis

O Rahmati, H Zeinivand, M Besharat - Geomatics, Natural Hazards …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Flood is considered to be the most common natural disaster worldwide during the last
decades. Flood hazard potential mapping is required for management and mitigation of …

Comparative flood damage model assessment: towards a European approach

B Jongman, H Kreibich, H Apel… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2012 - nhess.copernicus.org
There is a wide variety of flood damage models in use internationally, differing substantially
in their approaches and economic estimates. Since these models are being used more and …

[HTML][HTML] Three hypotheses on changing river flood hazards

G Blöschl - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2022 - hess.copernicus.org
There is serious concern that the hazard, or probability, of river floods is increasing over
time. Starting from narratives that are sometimes discussed in public, the article addresses …

Assessment of flood hazard areas using analytical hierarchy process over the Lower Yom Basin, Sukhothai Province

K Seejata, A Yodying, T Wongthadam, N Mahavik… - Procedia …, 2018 - Elsevier
Flood hazard map is essential tool to assess susceptibility of flood prone area. The present
study focuses on an assessment of flood hazard areas in Sukhothai province of Thailand …

Urban flood vulnerability assessment in a densely urbanized city using multi-factor analysis and machine learning algorithms

F Parvin, SA Ali, B Calka, E Bielecka, NTT Linh… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Flood is considered as the most devastating natural hazards that cause the death of many
lives worldwide. The present study aimed to predict flood vulnerability for Warsaw, Poland …