Flood inundation prediction

PD Bates - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Every year flood events lead to thousands of casualties and significant economic damage.
Mapping the areas at risk of flooding is critical to reducing these losses, yet until the last few …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the current status of flood modelling for urban flood risk management in the developing countries

UC Nkwunonwo, M Whitworth, B Baily - Scientific African, 2020 - Elsevier
The prevalence of flooding events and the associated risk in the urban areas is an
increasingly important issue of global significance, although it is more critical for the …

[HTML][HTML] Gaussian process emulation of spatio-temporal outputs of a 2D inland flood model

J Donnelly, S Abolfathi, J Pearson, O Chatrabgoun… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The computational limitations of complex numerical models have led to adoption of
statistical emulators across a variety of problems in science and engineering disciplines to …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated GPU-accelerated modeling framework for high-resolution simulations of rural and urban flash floods

A Buttinger-Kreuzhuber, A Konev, Z Horváth… - … Modelling & Software, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents an integrated modeling framework aiming at accurate predictions of
flood hazard from heavy rainfalls. The accuracy of such predictions generally depends on …

Is local flood hazard assessment in urban areas significantly influenced by the physical complexity of the hydrodynamic inundation model?

P Costabile, C Costanzo, G De Lorenzo… - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Flood hazard in urban areas is usually assessed by the estimations of parameters like flood
extent, water depths, flow velocities and other related quantities. These hydrodynamic …

Implications of using global digital elevation models for flood risk analysis in cities

F McClean, R Dawson, C Kilsby - Water Resources Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As urban populations grow, it is increasingly important to accurately characterize flood risk in
cities and built up areas. Global digital elevation models (GDEMs) have recently enabled …

The value of urban flood modeling

BR Rosenzweig, P Herreros Cantis, Y Kim… - Earth's …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Floods are important disturbances to urban socio‐eco‐technical systems and their
meteorological drivers are projected to increase through the century due to global climate …

Are flood damage models converging to “reality”? Lessons learnt from a blind test

D Molinari, AR Scorzini, C Arrighi… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2020 - nhess.copernicus.org
Effective flood risk management requires a realistic estimation of flood losses. However,
available flood damage estimates are still characterized by significant levels of uncertainty …

Moving to 3-D flood hazard maps for enhancing risk communication

F Macchione, P Costabile, C Costanzo… - … modelling & software, 2019 - Elsevier
D representations of flood inundation through emerging formats in virtual and augmented
realities may be a powerful tool with which to interact with political decision-makers and to …

[HTML][HTML] Building level flood exposure analysis using a hydrodynamic model

R Bertsch, V Glenis, C Kilsby - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2022 - Elsevier
The advent of detailed hydrodynamic model simulations of urban flooding has not been
matched by improved capabilities in flood exposure analysis which rely on validation …