Disastrous floods have caused millions of fatalities in the twentieth century, tens of billions of
dollars of direct economic loss each year and serious disruption to global trade. In this …

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 …

A leading challenge in measuring social vulnerability to hazards is for output metrics to
better reflect the context in which vulnerability occurs. Through a meta-analysis of 67 flood …

River flooding can have severe societal, economic, and environmental consequences.
However, limited understanding of the regional differences in flood‐generating mechanisms …

Background. Floods are the most common natural disaster and the leading cause of natural
disaster fatalities worldwide. Risk of catastrophic losses due to flooding is significant given …

Flash floods and debris flows develop at space and time scales that conventional
observation systems for rainfall, streamflow and sediment discharge are not able to monitor …

This document has two main sections: one on historical conditions and trends, and the other
on future conditions as simulated by climate models. The historical section concentrates on …

Impacts of floods on human society have been drawing increasing human concerns in
recent years. In this study, flood observations from EM-DAT (Emergency Events Database) …

Flooding is the most common natural hazard and third most damaging globally after storms
and earthquakes. Anthropogenic climate change is expected to increase flood risk through …

Extreme weather (heat, cold, storms, floods, and lightning) has long been associated with
excess morbidity and mortality. Studies of weather-related morbidity and mortality have …