Understanding heavy tails of flood peak distributions

B Merz, S Basso, S Fischer, D Lun… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical distributions of flood peak discharge often show heavy tail behavior, that is,
extreme floods are more likely to occur than would be predicted by commonly used …

Natural flood management

SN Lane - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Natural flood management (NFM) has been advocated as a sustainable alternative to
traditional flood management. NFM is based upon the well‐established principle that …

The effects of river restoration on catchment scale flood risk and flood hydrology

SJ Dixon, DA Sear, NA Odoni, T Sykes… - Earth Surface …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A rising exposure to flood risk is a predicted consequence of increased development in
vulnerable areas and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events due to climate …

Natural flood management, lag time and catchment scale: Results from an empirical nested catchment study

A Black, L Peskett, A MacDonald… - Journal of Flood Risk …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Natural flood management (NFM) techniques attract much interest in flood risk management
science, not least because their effectiveness remains subject to considerable uncertainty …

Role of forested land for natural flood management in the UK: A review

MMD Cooper, SD Patil, TR Nisbet… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Natural flood management (NFM) is the use of natural processes and environments to
mitigate flood risk by reducing and delaying peak flood. This review introduces the concept …

[HTML][HTML] Restoration of blanket peat moorland delays stormflow from hillslopes and reduces peak discharge

EL Shuttleworth, MG Evans, M Pilkington… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the past 15 years there has been a proliferation of projects aiming to restore the
structure and function of UK upland blanket mires, primarily by revegetation of bare peat and …

The geomorphological unit hydrograph from a historical‐critical perspective

R Rigon, M Bancheri, G Formetta… - Earth Surface …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we present a brief overview of geomorphological instantaneous unit
hydrograph (GIUH) theories and analyze their successful path without hiding their …

Experiments of an IoT-based wireless sensor network for flood monitoring in Colima, Mexico

O Mendoza-Cano, R Aquino-Santos… - Journal of …, 2021 - iwaponline.com
Urban flooding is one of the major issues in many parts of the world, and its management is
often challenging. One of the challenges highlighted by the hydrology and related …

[HTML][HTML] How can we plan resilient systems of nature-based mitigation measures in larger catchments for flood risk reduction now and in the future?

B Hankin, T Page, G McShane, N Chappell, C Spray… - Water Security, 2021 - Elsevier
There is considerable empirical evidence that using nature-based solutions to restore and
enhance hydrological processes such as infiltration, interception, floodplain re-connection …

Mitigating floods and attenuating surface runoff with temporary storage areas in headwaters

MT Roberts, J Geris, PD Hallett… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Temporary storage areas (TSAs) represent a category of soft‐engineered nature‐based
solutions that can provide dispersed, small‐scale storage throughout a catchment. TSAs …