Framework for Offline Flood Inundation Forecasts for Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Models
Chair of Hydrology and River Basin Management, Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 Munich, Germany
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Geosciences 2018, 8(9), 346; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8090346
Received: 19 July 2018 / Revised: 22 August 2018 / Accepted: 11 September 2018 / Published: 13 September 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrology of Urban Catchments)
The paper presents a new methodology for hydrodynamic-based flood forecast that focuses on scenario generation and database queries to select appropriate flood inundation maps in real-time. In operational flood forecasting, only discharges are forecasted at specific gauges using hydrological models. Hydrodynamic models, which are required to produce inundation maps, are computationally expensive, hence not feasible for real-time inundation forecasting. In this study, we have used a substantial number of pre-calculated inundation maps that are stored in a database and a methodology to extract the most likely maps in real-time. The method uses real-time discharge forecast at upstream gauge as an input and compares it with the pre-recorded scenarios. The results show satisfactory agreements between offline inundation maps that are retrieved from a pre-recorded database and online maps, which are hindcasted using historical events. Furthermore, this allows an efficient early warning system, thanks to the fast run-time of the proposed offline selection of inundation maps. The framework is validated in the city of Kulmbach in Germany.
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Keywords:
database; flood forecast; flood inundation map; hydrodynamic models
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Bhola, P.K.; Leandro, J.; Disse, M. Framework for Offline Flood Inundation Forecasts for Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Models. Geosciences 2018, 8, 346. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8090346
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Bhola PK, Leandro J, Disse M. Framework for Offline Flood Inundation Forecasts for Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Models. Geosciences. 2018; 8(9):346. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8090346
Chicago/Turabian StyleBhola, Punit K.; Leandro, Jorge; Disse, Markus. 2018. "Framework for Offline Flood Inundation Forecasts for Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Models" Geosciences 8, no. 9: 346. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8090346
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