Flooding is a recurring challenge across Malaysia, causing loss of life, extensive disruption and having a major impact on the economy. A new collaboration between Malaysia and UK, supported by the Newton-Ungku Omar Fund, ...

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, ...

The operation river ice and water temperature forecasting system of the Hungarian Hydrological Forecasting Service is based on a dual approach. The estimation of the energy balance of the Danube River is carried out as a ...

Decision-making in flood risk management strongly relies on the accurate estimation of monetary flood loss. Recent advancements in the field promote the use of multivariable flood loss models that consider a multitude of ...

Climate change is likely to cause a change in frequency and intensity of convective thunderstorms and associated heavy precipitation. Typical consequences of such events are a rapid generation of surface runoff with high ...

Reliable prognoses of building damage caused by flood impact require realistic relationships between action and damage or loss describing parameters. A remarkable progress is reached with the EDAC flood damage model which ...

Flood risk reduction has always been vital to the Netherlands. The complexity that flood risk managers are facing has grown over time and is expected to do so due to developments of new knowledge, methods, innovations and ...

Following recent catastrophic floods, France issued in 2007 a first regulation on the safety of dams and levees. In 2014 a new competence has been attributed to local authorities: the management of aquatic environments and ...

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 ...

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 ...