Challenges in modeling and predicting floods and droughts: A review

MI Brunner, L Slater, LM Tallaksen… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Predictions of floods, droughts, and fast drought‐flood transitions are required at different
time scales to develop management strategies targeted at minimizing negative societal and …

Assessing extremes in hydroclimatology: A review on probabilistic methods

SD Nerantzaki, SM Papalexiou - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Here we review methods used for probabilistic analysis of extreme events in
Hydroclimatology. We focus on streamflow, precipitation, and temperature extremes at …

Peaks-over-threshold model in flood frequency analysis: a scoping review

X Pan, A Rahman, K Haddad, TBMJ Ouarda - … Research and Risk …, 2022 - Springer
In flood frequency analysis (FFA), annual maximum (AM) model is widely adopted in
practice due to its straightforward sampling process. However, AM model has been criticized …

Snow-influenced floods are more strongly connected in space than purely rainfall-driven floods

MI Brunner, S Fischer - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Widespread floods that affect several catchments are associated with large damages and
costs. To improve flood protection, a better understanding of the driving processes of such …

Climate change impact on flood hazard over Italy

MGV Ojeda, F Di Sante, E Coppola, A Fantini… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study assesses future projections of flood hazards across the Italian river basins. For
this purpose, sub-daily river discharge for the entire Italian territory was simulated with the …

Advancing flood warning procedures in ungauged basins with machine learning

Z Rasheed, A Aravamudan, AG Sefidmazgi… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Flood prediction across scales and more specifically in ungauged areas remains a great
challenge that limits the efficiency of flood risk mitigation strategies and disaster …

An in-depth analysis of physical blue and green water scarcity in agriculture in terms of causes and events and perceived amenability to economic interpretation

K Zisopoulou, D Panagoulia - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
An analytical review of physical blue and green water scarcity in terms of agricultural use,
and its amenability to economic interpretation, is presented, employing more than 600 …

Reliable estimation of high floods: A method to select the most suitable ordinary distribution in the Metastatistical extreme value framework

S Mushtaq, A Miniussi, R Merz, S Basso - Advances in Water Resources, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent advances in the study of extreme values, namely the Metastatistical extreme value
(MEV) framework, showed good performances for the estimation of extremes in several …

Extension and refinement of a stochastic modelling approach to assess ice-jam flood hazard

KE Lindenschmidt - Hydrology Research, 2023 - iwaponline.com
In the spring of 2020, the town of Fort McMurray, which lies on the banks of the Athabasca
River, experienced an ice-jam flood event that was the most severe in approximately 60 …

Flood frequency estimation and uncertainty in arid/semi-arid regions

A Metzger, F Marra, JA Smith, E Morin - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
At site flood frequency analysis (FFA) in arid/semi-arid watersheds poses unique challenges
to researchers and practitioners due to the generally limited data records. This study …