Impact forecasting to support emergency management of natural hazards

B Merz, C Kuhlicke, M Kunz, M Pittore… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Forecasting and early warning systems are important investments to protect lives, properties,
and livelihood. While early warning systems are frequently used to predict the magnitude …

Recent advances and new frontiers in riverine and coastal flood modeling

K Jafarzadegan, H Moradkhani… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, the scientific community has made significant efforts to simulate
flooding conditions using a variety of complex physically based models. Despite all …

[HTML][HTML] Mediterranean cyclones: Current knowledge and open questions on dynamics, prediction, climatology and impacts

E Flaounas, S Davolio, S Raveh-Rubin… - Weather and Climate …, 2022 - wcd.copernicus.org
A large number of intense cyclones occur every year in the Mediterranean basin, one of the
climate change hotspots. Producing a broad range of severe socio-economic and …

Toward street‐level nowcasting of flash floods impacts based on HPC hydrodynamic modeling at the watershed scale and high‐resolution weather radar data

P Costabile, C Costanzo, J Kalogiros… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In our era, the rapid increase of parallel programming coupled with high‐performance
computing (HPC) facilities allows for the use of two‐dimensional shallow water equation (2D …

[HTML][HTML] Brief communication: Impact forecasting could substantially improve the emergency management of deadly floods: case study July 2021 floods in Germany

H Apel, S Vorogushyn, B Merz - Natural Hazards and Earth …, 2022 - nhess.copernicus.org
Floods affect more people than any other natural hazard; thus flood warning and disaster
management are of utmost importance. However, the operational hydrological forecasts do …

Operational and emerging capabilities for surface water flood forecasting

LJ Speight, MD Cranston, CJ White… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Surface water (or pluvial) flooding is caused by intense rainfall before it enters rivers or
drainage systems. As the climate changes and urban populations grow, the number of …

The benefits and challenges of implementing impact-based severe weather warning systems: Perspectives of weather, flood, and emergency management personnel

S Potter, S Harrison, P Kreft - Weather, climate, and society, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Warnings about impending hazards help to minimize the impacts and reduce the risk of the
hazard through encouraging an appropriate and timely behavioral response. Many …

Subseasonal to seasonal prediction of weather to climate with application to tropical cyclones

AW Robertson, F Vitart… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Demands are growing rapidly in the operational prediction and applications communities for
forecasts that fill the gap between daily weather forecasts and seasonal climate outlooks …

A review of research on the record-breaking precipitation event in Henan Province, China, July 2021

Q Zhang, R Li, J Sun, F Lu, J Xu, F Zhang - Advances in Atmospheric …, 2023 - Springer
A record-breaking precipitation event, with a maximum 24-h (1-h) precipitation of 624 mm
(201.9 mm) observed at Zhengzhou Weather Station, occurred in Henan Province, China, in …

Impacts of Medicanes on geomorphology and infrastructure in the eastern mediterranean, the case of Medicane ianos and the ionian islands in western Greece

M Diakakis, S Mavroulis, C Filis, S Lozios, E Vassilakis… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Despite being relatively rare, Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones, also known as
Medicanes, induce significant impacts on coastal Mediterranean areas. Under climate …