Advances in Flood Early Warning: Ensemble Forecast, Information Dissemination and Decision-Support Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Floods are highly destructive, usually causing enormous losses to life and property. It is, therefore, important and necessary to develop effective flood early warning systems (e.g., numerical weather prediction) and disseminate the information to the public through various information sources (e.g., social media), to prevent or at least mitigate damage to lives and property. For flood early warning, qualitative and quantitative methods can be developed by taking advantage of state-of-the-art techniques. For instance, different temporal and spatial scales can be considered, both ground data and remote sensing data can be used as the input, and a service-oriented architecture can be proposed for efficient flood forecasting. In addition, a general opinion dynamics model can be developed to simulate how individuals update their flood hazard awareness. Such developments can offer new insights into modeling flood disasters, including facilitating more accurate forecasts, more efficient communication, and more timely evacuation.

This Special Issue aims to collect the latest methodological developments and applications in the field of flood early warning. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Flood dynamics, mechanisms and processes
• Development of methods for flood early warning, especially in ungauged basins
• Improvement of flood forecasting and information dissemination using various information sources
• New methods/techniques for flood risk analysis, vulnerability analysis and evacuation behavior
• Empirical analysis of flood warnings and flood-mitigation practices during real-world flood events

Dr. Haiyun Shi
Dr. Erhu Du
Dr. Suning Liu
Prof. Kwok-wing Chau
Guest Editors

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