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Flood risk assessment of the City of Calgary considering flood control barrier performance
(2021)The 2013 flood in southern Alberta was one of the worst natural disasters in Canadian history. Heavy rainfall and a melting snowpack in the upstream Rocky Mountains resulted in higher-than-normal runoff in several Alberta ... -
Flooding impact on bridges and roads: from asset- to network-level
(2021)According to UNISDR, floods are the most frequent and damaging natural threat worldwide. Whereas the assessment of direct losses is well advanced, the evaluation of indirect impacts is less frequently applied. Indirect ... -
Geophysical and geotechnical data fusion for protection dikes characterization
(2021)Dike ruptures may lead to disastrous consequences such as loss of lives and economic disasters. To prevent the risk of breakage, special supervision of the hydraulic structure is required. Usual methodologies for the ... -
HEIMDALL: a technological solution for floods and multi-hazard management support
(2021)The Horizon 2020-funded project HEIMDALL (Multi-Hazard Cooperative Management Tool for Data Exchange, Response Planning and Scenario Building) aims to improve immediate and long-term collaborative strategic planning on a ... -
How about the dikes? Managed realignment in progress at the Hedwige-Prosperpolder
(2021)Managed realignment is the landward relocation of a primary flood defence line. Because of this relocation, former land re-inundates, intertidal habitats can restore and new foreshores can develop adjacent to relocated ... -
How does culture affect individual adaptation to climate-driven floods?
(2021)Expanding human developments and climate change have exacerbated the impact of natural hazards worldwide. In particular, accelerating flood risks entails that more traditional top down measures are complimented by individual ... -
Identification of River Defences from Digital Terrain Models using Deep Learning
(2021)Flood defences play a central role in the quantification of flood risk. JBA Risk Management produces undefended hazard maps that are supplemented with defence information to provide risk practitioners with the most flexible ... -
Impact of climate change on Hungarian Water Management Strategy
(2021)One of the pillars of the Hungarian Water Strategy is preparing for the expected effects of climate change. Changes in the spatial and temporal distribution of water is the major challenge for Hungarian Water Management ... -
Improved Prediction of Atmospheric Rivers That Drive Flood Damages in the Western United States
(2021)Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are extratropical storms that produce extreme precipitation on the west coasts of the world's major landmasses and have been shown to be an important source of variations in precipitation and ... -
Improving Situational Awareness for Floods: Monitoring Using Satellite Data in the Boreal Region
(2021)Space-borne remote sensing techniques enable a near real-time mapping of floods cost-efficiently. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical sensors are the most suitable for flood detection, however, SAR has become more ... -
Improving urban flood estimation and flood risk assessment using landscape metrics
(2021)Urbanization creates impervious coverage and increases peak flows during storm events. Flood estimation methods in the United Kingdom characterize these impacts using a weighted measure of catchment urban land cover, but ... -
Industry Research into Dam and Levee Breach Erosion Through Coarser Grained Materials
(2021)Predicting breach erosion processes is essential for the effective risk management of both dams and levees. In recent years, a variety of research efforts have improved our knowledge of erosion processes, and in particular ... -
Influence of water depth on wave overtopping
(2021)The wave overtopping discharge during extreme storm conditions largely determines the required crest height in dike reinforcement projects. In case of future sea level rise, crest heights should be increased significantly, ... -
Interdisciplinary approach to flood risk and the Consequence of Flooding
(2021)This paper describes an alternate approach to prioritizing pluvial flood risk intervention strategies, and quantifying Consequence of Flooding (CoF) by applying the methodology of Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA). ... -
Internal Erosion Breach Model Review and Validation
(2021)Predicting breach erosion processes is essential for the effective risk management of both dams and levees. Following the success of an earlier initiative to assess the performance of breach models for predicting overflow ... -
International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features
(2021)Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) have been used for decades to support a variety of objectives in coastal and fluvial systems. Coastal and fluvial restoration projects have been used in Europe, the United States ... -
International Handbook for Emergency Response to Flood Risk: A call for collaboration
(2021)Flood emergency response is an essential component of a flood risk management strategy. Effective flood emergency response depends on implementing the appropriate measures, and on executing them correctly. The skills and ... -
Investigating ways to predict channel changes to inform flood risk management now and in the future
(2021)Floods can cause severe and rapid changes in rivers. They can erode river banks and deposit vast quantities of sediment. This can impact on land-use, infrastructure (such as bridges and culverts), and properties where flood ... -
Investigation, assessment and remediation of levee transitions
(2021)Transitions between levees (earthen flood embankments) and other hard structures are areas of weakness within an overall system of flood defences and can be found at any location, on or within a flood defence where there ... -
Living with floods and land management strategies in Nepal
(2021)Land management is often addressed as a secondary matter in flood prevention, but should be given more attention. Land is a crucial factor in how societies and communities cope with changing flood risk, so policies must ...