Radar for hydrology: Unfulfilled promise or unrecognized potential?

A Berne, WF Krajewski - Advances in Water Resources, 2013 - Elsevier
Hydrology requires accurate and reliable rainfall input. Because of the strong spatial and
temporal variability of precipitation, estimation of spatially distributed rain rates is …

On the need of ensemble flood forecast in India

JS Nanditha, V Mishra - Water Security, 2021 - Elsevier
Floods affect a large fraction of the Indian population during the monsoon (June-September)
every year. Floods disrupt all aspects of the socio-economic conditions and cause enormous …

GIS based hybrid computational approaches for flash flood susceptibility assessment

BT Pham, M Avand, S Janizadeh, TV Phong… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Flash floods are one of the most devastating natural hazards; they occur within a catchment
(region) where the response time of the drainage basin is short. Identification of probable …

Flash flood forecasting, warning and risk management: the HYDRATE project

M Borga, EN Anagnostou, G Blöschl… - Environmental Science & …, 2011 - Elsevier
The management of flash flood hazards and risks is a critical component of public safety and
quality of life. Flash-floods develop at space and time scales that conventional observation …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in the simulation of debris flow erosion: The case study of the Rio Gere (Italy) event of the 4th August 2017

T Baggio, M Mergili, V D'Agostino - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
Debris flows are natural hazards causing fatalities and damages to infrastructures every
year. One of the current challenges is to improve the predictability of such events using …

Large‐sample evaluation of radar rainfall nowcasting for flood early warning

RO Imhoff, CC Brauer… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To assess the potential of radar rainfall nowcasting for early warning, nowcasts for 659
events were used to construct discharge forecasts for 12 Dutch catchments. Four open …

[HTML][HTML] The accuracy of weather radar in heavy rain: a comparative study for Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden

M Schleiss, J Olsson, P Berg, T Niemi… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
Weather radar has become an invaluable tool for monitoring rainfall and studying its link to
hydrological response. However, when it comes to accurately measuring small-scale rainfall …

Polarimetric radar quantitative precipitation estimation

A Ryzhkov, P Zhang, P Bukovčić, J Zhang, S Cocks - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Radar quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) is one of the primary tasks of weather
radars. The QPE quality was substantially improved after polarimetric upgrade of the radars …

Use of radar QPE for the derivation of Intensity–Duration–Frequency curves in a range of climatic regimes

F Marra, E Morin - Journal of hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
Summary Intensity–Duration–Frequency (IDF) curves are widely used in flood risk
management because they provide an easy link between the characteristics of a rainfall …

A multi-platform hydrometeorological analysis of the flash flood event of 15 November 2017 in Attica, Greece

G Varlas, MN Anagnostou, C Spyrou, A Papadopoulos… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Urban areas often experience high precipitation rates and heights associated with flash
flood events. Atmospheric and hydrological models in combination with remote-sensing and …