Author: Davor KvockaPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Modelling Elevations, Inundation Extent and Hazard Risk for Extreme Flood Events
Author: Davor KvockaFloods in a Changing Climate
Author: Giuliano Di BaldassarrePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139851632
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Flood inundation models enable us to make hazard predictions for floodplains, mitigating increasing flood fatalities and losses. This book provides an understanding of hydraulic modelling and floodplain dynamics, with a key focus on state-of-the-art remote sensing data, and methods to estimate and communicate uncertainty. Academic researchers in the fields of hydrology, climate change, environmental science and natural hazards, and professionals and policy-makers working in flood risk mitigation, hydraulic engineering and remote sensing will find this an invaluable resource. This volume is the third in a collection of four books on flood disaster management theory and practice within the context of anthropogenic climate change. The others are: Floods in a Changing Climate: Extreme Precipitation by Ramesh Teegavarapu, Floods in a Changing Climate: Hydrological Modeling by P. P. Mujumdar and D. Nagesh Kumar and Floods in a Changing Climate: Risk Management by Slodoban Simonović.
Global Flood Hazard
Author: Guy J-P. SchumannPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119217865
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Global Flood Hazard Subject Category Winner, PROSE Awards 2019, Earth Science Selected from more than 500 entries, demonstrating exceptional scholarship and making a significant contribution to the field of study. Flooding is a costly natural disaster in terms of damage to land, property and infrastructure. This volume describes the latest tools and technologies for modeling, mapping, and predicting large-scale flood risk. It also presents readers with a range of remote sensing data sets successfully used for predicting and mapping floods at different scales. These resources can enable policymakers, public planners, and developers to plan for, and respond to, flooding with greater accuracy and effectiveness. Describes the latest large-scale modeling approaches, including hydrological models, 2-D flood inundation models, and global flood forecasting models Showcases new tools and technologies such as Aqueduct, a new web-based tool used for global assessment and projection of future flood risk under climate change scenarios Features case studies describing best-practice uses of modeling techniques, tools, and technologies Global Flood Hazard is an indispensable resource for researchers, consultants, practitioners, and policy makers dealing with flood risk, flood disaster response, flood management, and flood mitigation.
Integration of Physically-Based and Data-Driven Modeling Approaches for Compound Coastal Flood Hazard Assessment Under Uncertainties
Author: David Fernando MuñozPublisher:
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Category : Electronic dissertations
Languages : en
Pages :
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Flood hazard assessment is an essential component of risk and disaster management that helps identify areas exposed to flooding as well as support decision making, and emergency response. Floods can result from isolated, concurrent, or successive drivers of (non-) extreme origin (e.g., fluvial, pluvial, and oceanic) and so put society and the environment at constant risk. Specifically, a combination of either concurrent or successive flood drivers with potential impacts larger than those from isolated drivers is defined as compound flooding (CF). Contemporary studies in compound flood hazard assessment (CFHA) and modeling have focused on simulating inundation extent, water depth, and velocities at local or regional scale. However, those studies often neglect inherent uncertainties associated with forcing data, observations, model parameters, and model structure. A comprehensive analysis of these uncertainty sources is thus imperative, but it requires advanced statistical techniques such as data assimilation (DA) to adequately account for error propagation in compound flood modeling. Chapters 1 to 4 present previous peer-review studies oriented towards a better characterization of uncertainty in CFHA. Those studies include the following research topics: (i) analysis of wetland elevation error and correction of coastal digital elevation models, (ii) compound effects of wetland elevation error and uncertainty from flood drivers, (iii) effects of model selection and model structure error on total water level prediction, and (iv) long-term wetland dynamics associated with urbanization, sea level rise, and hurricane impacts. Chapter 5 presents a cost-effective approach based on deep learning (DL) and data fusion (DF) techniques that enables efficient estimation of exposure to compound coastal flooding at regional scale. Chapter 6 presents a DA scheme based on the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) technique and hydrodynamic modeling to improve water level (WL) predictions and CFHA in coastal to inland transition zones where pluvial, fluvial, and coastal processes interact. The last section of this dissertation summarizes the main findings of these studies and discusses future research areas that are worth exploring in the context of CFHA.
Floods in a Changing Climate
Author: Giuliano Di BaldassarrePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107018757
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Provides modeling tools to create hazard predictions for floodplains, based on state-of-the-art remote sensing data, for academic researchers and professionals.
Renewable Energy Resource Assessment and Forecasting
Author: George GalanisPublisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3039430866
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In recent years, several projects and studies have been launched towards the development and use of new methodologies, in order to assess, monitor, and support clean forms of energy. Accurate estimation of the available energy potential is of primary importance, but is not always easy to achieve. The present Special Issue on ‘Renewable Energy Resource Assessment and Forecasting’ aims to provide a holistic approach to the above issues, by presenting multidisciplinary methodologies and tools that are able to support research projects and meet today’s technical, socio-economic, and decision-making needs. In particular, research papers, reviews, and case studies on the following subjects are presented: wind, wave and solar energy; biofuels; resource assessment of combined renewable energy forms; numerical models for renewable energy forecasting; integrated forecasted systems; energy for buildings; sustainable development; resource analysis tools and statistical models; extreme value analysis and forecasting for renewable energy resources.
Response of Flood Events to Land Use and Climate Change
Author: Azadeh RameshPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400755279
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book is an original and novel contribution to flood hazard assessment, climate change and land use change and is intended to serve both as an effective source of information and a valuable basis for priority setting and further technical, financial and political decisions regarding flood hazard assessment. The study area is located on the floodplain of the Ubaye River in the Barcelonnette area, part of the Alpes de Haute Provence in southeast France. The book offers a comparative overview of the major challenges faced when dealing with flood hazards. The research presented is intended to promote a deeper understanding of how climate change and land use change processes have evolved from past to present, and how they affect the flow regime of the Ubaye River based on sound and reproducible scientific arguments. The methodology implemented ranges from remote sensing interpretation to hydrodynamic modeling and includes the application of spatial and statistical modeling. The results of this research provide essential information for policymaking, decision-making support and flood hazard planning in the Barcelonnette area.
Advances in Renewable Energies Offshore
Author: Carlos Guedes SoaresPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429999569
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Advances in Renewable Energies Offshore is a collection of the papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore (RENEW 2018) held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 8-10 October 2018. The 104 contributions were written by a diverse international group of authors and have been reviewed by an International Scientific Committee. The book is organized in the following main subject areas: - Modelling tidal currents - Modelling waves - Tidal energy devices (design, applications and experiments) - Tidal energy arrays - Wave energy devices (point absorber, multibody, applications, control, experiments, CFD, coastal OWC, OWC and turbines) - Wave energy arrays - Wind energy devices - Wind energy arrays - Maintenance and reliability - Combined platforms - Moorings, and - Flexible materials Advances in Renewable Energies Offshore collects recent developments in these fields, and will be of interest to academics and professionals involved in the above mentioned areas.
Flood Hazard Identification and Mitigation in Semi- and Arid Environments
Author: Richard H. FrenchPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814355097
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Alluvial fans are ubiquitous geomorphological features that occur throughout the world, regardless of climate, at the front of mountains as the result of erosion and deposition. They are more prominent in semi- and arid climates simply because of the lack of vegetative cover that masks their fan shapes in more humid areas. From both engineering and geological viewpoints, alluvial fans present particular fluvial and sedimentation hazards in semi- and arid regions because episodic rainfall-runoff events can result in debris, mud, and fluvial flows through complex and, in some cases, migratory channel systems. Further, in semi- and arid climates alluvial fans often end in terminal or playa lakes. Given the uniform topography of playa lakes, these features often present ideal locations for facilities such as airports; however, regardless of the engineering advantages of the topography, the episodic and often long-term flooding of these lakes attracts migratory birds. The purpose of this volume is to summarize the current state-of-the-art, from the viewpoint of engineering, in the identification and mitigation of flood hazard on alluvial fans; and to accomplish this a fundamental understanding of geology is required.
Floods in a Changing Climate
Author: Ramesh S. V. TeegavarapuPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139851659
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Measurement, analysis and modeling of extreme precipitation events linked to floods is vital in understanding changing climate impacts and variability. This book provides methods for assessment of the trends in these events and their impacts. It also provides a basis to develop procedures and guidelines for climate-adaptive hydrologic engineering. Academic researchers in the fields of hydrology, climate change, meteorology, environmental policy and risk assessment, and professionals and policy-makers working in hazard mitigation, water resources engineering and climate adaptation will find this an invaluable resource. This volume is the first in a collection of four books on flood disaster management theory and practice within the context of anthropogenic climate change. The others are: Floods in a Changing Climate: Hydrological Modeling by P. P. Mujumdar and D. Nagesh Kumar, Floods in a Changing Climate: Inundation Modeling by Giuliano Di Baldassarre and Floods in a Changing Climate: Risk Management by Slodoban Simonović.