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 …

This data paper describes the multinational Database of Flood Fatalities from the Euro-
Mediterranean region FFEM-DB that hosts data of 2,875 flood fatalities from 12 territories …

Flash floods evolve rapidly in time, which poses particular challenges to emergency
managers. One way to support decision-making is to complement models that estimate the …

Flooding is one of the main natural hazards in the world and causes huge economic and
human impacts. Assessing the flood damage in the Mediterranean region is of great …

Up to now, flash flood monitoring and forecasting systems, based on rainfall radar
measurements and distributed rainfall–runoff models, generally aimed at estimating flood …

The development of early warning systems (EWSs) is a key element for the effective
mitigation of flash flood impacts. Emergency managers and other end-users increasingly …

Floods can arise from a variety of physical processes. Although numerous risk assessment
approaches stress the importance of taking into account the possible combinations of flood …

Surface water flooding (SWF) is a severe hazard associated with extreme convective rainfall,
whose spatial and temporal sparsity belie the significant impacts it has on populations and …

Every year in France, recurring flood events result in several million euros of damage, and
reducing the heavy consequences of floods has become a high priority. However, actions to …

The IRIP method, or “indicator of intense pluvial runoff” in English, is a geomatics method
that allows mapping the susceptibility of a territory to surface runoff and that provides three …