Ephemeral rivers are vital to ecosystem balance and human activities as essential surface runoff, while convenient and effective ways of calculating the peak discharge of ephemeral rivers are scarce, especially in ungauged areas. In this study, a new...
The uncertainties in the time of concentration (Tc) model estimate from contrasting environments constitute a setback, as errors in Tc lead to errors in peak discharge. Analysis of such uncertainties in model prediction in arid watersheds is unavaila...
The Sylhet Division of Bangladesh, highly susceptible to monsoon flooding, requires effective flood risk management to reduce socio-economic losses. Flood frequency analysis is an essential aspect of flood risk management and plays a crucial role in...
Land use affects regional hydrological processes. The alteration of regional distributions of vegetation, crop types, and land-use patterns for construction has a significant impact on the runoff process and influences the water cycle in watersheds....
In semi-arid regions, flood events are often characterized by rapid runoff and high hydrological variability, posing significant challenges for infrastructure safety and flood risk assessment. Traditional flood frequency analysis methods, typically b...
Regional flood frequency analysis (RFFA) is widely used to estimate design floods in ungauged catchments. Most of the RFFA techniques are based on the annual maximum (AM) flood model; however, research has shown that the peaks-over-threshold (POT) mo...
Recent evidence of regional climate change impacts on hydrological cycle directed us to study the floods in a high elevated and rapidly urbanized river basin, the Kabul River basin (KRB), Pakistan, which is susceptible to frequent flooding. Therefore...
Climate change is expected to significantly impact temperature and precipitation, as well as snow accumulations and melt in mid-latitudes, including in the Baltic region, ultimately affecting the quantity and seasonal distribution of streamflow. This...
The severity and incidence of flash floods are increasing in forested regions, causing significant harm to residents and the environment. Consequently, accurate estimation of flood peaks is crucial. As conventional physically based prediction models...
Analyzing trends in flood magnitude changes, and their underlying causes, under climate change, is a key challenge for the effective management of water resources in arid and semi-arid regions, particularly for inland rivers originating in the Qilian...
Climate change causes the river basin water cycle disorders, and rainfall characteristics frequently result in flood disasters. This study aims to simulate and assess the response behavior of basin floods under the influence of rainfall characteristi...
Climate change has a significant impact on river flows, leading to overflows and floods that affect populations, especially in Andean regions. This study examines flood scenarios in the Cunas River Basin (Junín, Peru) through hydrological and...
Mid-latitude regions in the North Pacific are generally vulnerable to climatological disasters and are possibly more sensitive to future climate changes. Severe flood disasters struck Hokkaido in August 2016 because of the multiple, continuous typhoo...
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Water resources in arid and semi-arid regions are limited where the demands of agriculture, drinking and industry are increasing, especially in drought areas. These regions are subjected to climate changes (CC) that affect the watershed duration and...
Floods are amongst the most destructive and costly natural disasters impacting communities around the globe. The severity and reoccurrence of flooding events have been more common in recent years as a result of the changing climate and urbanization....
Urban development alters stormflow characteristics and is associated with increasing flood risks. The long-term evaluation of stormflow characteristics that exacerbate floods, such as peak stormflow and time-to-peak stormflow at varying levels of urb...
Floods in monsoon-dominated river basins exhibit high spatio-temporal variability, necessitating high-resolution, multi-sensor approaches for reliable monitoring and impact assessment. In flood-prone agricultural regions, continuous monitoring using...
Reservoirs operation alters the natural flow regime at downstream site and thus has a great impact on the design flood values. The general framework of flood regional composition and Equivalent Frequency Regional Composition (EFRC) method are current...
Flood prediction in hilly regions, characterized by rapid flow rates and high destructive potential, remains a significant challenge. This study addresses this problem by introducing a novel machine learning-based approach to enhance flood forecast a...
Floods are among the most occurring natural hazards that cause severe damage to infrastructure and loss of life. In India, southern Gujarat is affected during the monsoon season, facing multiple flood events in the Damanganga basin. As the basin is o...
Originating from the southern slope of Himalaya, the Karnali River poses a high flood risk at downstream regions during the monsoon season (June to September). This paper presents comprehensive hazard mapping and risk assessments in the downstream re...
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of flood frequency and a spatio-temporal characterization of historical torrential floods in the Šumadija region using water discharge datasets and documented events. A chronology of 344 recorded to...
Floods are a common natural disaster whose severity in terms of duration, water resource volume, peak, and accumulated rainfall-based damage is likely to differ significantly for different geographical regions. In this paper, we first propose a novel...
Floods are highly destructive natural disasters. Climate change and urbanization greatly impact their severity and frequency. Understanding flood causes in urban areas is essential due to significant economic and social impacts. Hydrological data and...
We analysed changes in magnitude and timing of the largest annual observed daily flow (Amax), in each water year, for 596 stations in high-value water resource catchments and flood risk locations across Australia. These stations are either included i...
The types of urban mountains are diverse, and the surrounding environment is complex. The conditions of runoff generation and convergence in different regions of the same mountain vary. Using the Lijia Mountain in China’s Nanjing City as a case...
A dam breach is an uncommon but profoundly destructive event that transpires when a dam collapses, releasing accumulated water downstream and leading to extensive damage. This study focuses on the Jure landslide dam, located in the Sindhupalchowk dis...
The retention lake often plays an important role in flood mitigation through the water storage and the lake–river interactions. However, the evolution of real-time flood regulation capacity remains poorly characterized. Using wavelet decomposit...
Flash floods occur in mountainous catchments with short response times, which are among the most devastating natural hazards in China. This paper intends to forecast and provide warnings of flash floods timely and precisely using the flash flood warn...
An extreme flood event occurred in Slovenia in August 2023. This study evaluated the influence of this extreme flood on the design discharges in Slovenia. This evaluation was based on flood frequency analysis for the data from 33 gauging stations. An...
Flooding, one of the most serious natural disasters, poses a significant threat to people’s lives and property. At present, the forecasting method uses simple snowmelt accumulation and has certain regional restrictions that limit the accuracy a...
Human activities and climate change have significantly influenced the water cycle, impacting flood risks and water security. This study centers on the Jing River Basin in the Chinese Loess Plateau, analyzing hydrological patterns and flood progressio...
Flooding from the Indus river and its tributaries has regularly influenced the region of Pakistan. Therefore, in order to limit the misfortune brought about by these inevitable happenings, it requires taking measures to estimate the occurrence and ef...
The Haihe River system, located in the East Asian monsoon climate zone, experiences uneven precipitation and significant variability, leading to frequent droughts and floods that disrupted economic and social development. While many studies have asse...
Regional information on stream discharge is needed in order to improve flood estimates based on the limited data availability. Regional flood estimation is fundamental for designing hydraulic structures and managing flood plains and water resource pr...
All flood hazard and risk assessment suffer from a certain degree of uncertainty due to multiple factors, such as flood frequency analysis, hydrodynamic model calibration, or flood damage (magnitude–damage functions) models. The uncertainty linked to...
The construction and operation of reservoirs have significantly altered the downstream flow regime, and the flood regional composition (FRC) method has been widely used to estimate design flood considering the regulation impact of upstream cascade re...
The role of the large-scale atmospheric circulation in producing heavy rainfall events and floods in the eastern part of Europe, with a special focus on the Siret and Prut catchment areas (Romania), is analyzed in this study. Moreover, a detailed ana...
Plain lakes play a crucial role in the hydrological cycle of a watershed, but their interactions with adjacent rivers and downstream water bodies can create complex river–lake relationships, often leading to frequent flooding disasters. Taking...
The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is one of the most flood-prone regions in the world, yet heavy cloud cover and limited in situ observations have hampered efforts to monitor the impact of heavy rainfall, flooding, and inundation during severe weather ev...
Given the increasing intensity and frequency of flood events, and the casualties and cost associated with bridge collapse events, explaining the flood behavior for the collapse sites would be of great necessity. In this study, annual peak flows of tw...
Mountain catchments in Central Europe are highly susceptible to flash floods. To inform local adaptation, this study quantifies the future flood response of a Polish Carpathian catchment (Upper Skawa, 240.4 km2) to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
Small reservoirs in hilly areas serve as critical water conservancy infrastructure, playing an essential role in flood control, irrigation, and regional water security. However, dam-break events pose significant risks to downstream urban areas, threa...
Floods in southwestern Saudi Arabia, especially in the Asir region, are among the major natural disasters caused by natural and human factors. In this region, flash floods that occur in the Wadi Hail Basin greatly affect human life and activities, da...
To enhance regional flood control capacity, this study focused on the DX River section in Zhejiang Province. Unmanned vessel bathymetry was employed to obtain precise river cross-section data. A hydrodynamic model was established to simulate flood pr...
Severe floods such as in the Ahr valley in July 2021 are one of the leading causes of fatalities from natural disaster. Riverine and lacustrine floods are caused by a sudden flux of water masses from heavy rainfall or snowmelts. These surface water r...
Extreme climatic events (ECE) are beginning to be perceived as potential causes of health disturbances. The assessment of the impacts of certain ECE to human health has become essential to health managers and caregivers. The objective of this study w...
The regulation of upstream cascade reservoirs has significantly altered the downstream hydrologic regime and should be taken into account in design flood estimation. The current flood regional composition (FRC) methods do not consider the unfavorable...
This study investigates flood behavior in the Wadi Ibrahim watershed by evaluating the sensitivity of flood estimates to different Peak Rate Factor (PRF) values, with a focus on their influence on peak discharge (Qp), time to peak (tp), volume (V) an...
Extreme precipitation has caused catastrophic flooding across West Africa, worsened by climate change. Understanding which rainfall type (deep, stratiform, or shallow convective) drives flooding along the West African coast can improve disaster respo...
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