Grand Valley State University

Global flood hazard, applications in modeling, mapping, and forecasting, Guy J-P. Schumann, Paul D. Bates, Heiko Apel, Giuseppe T. Aronica, editors

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

Global flood hazard

987796348

Guy J-P. Schumann, Paul D. Bates, Heiko Apel, Giuseppe T. Aronica, editors

Geophysical monograph, 233

applications in modeling, mapping, and forecasting

"Global flood hazard modeling and forecasting has many challenges but at the same time there is a lot of room for development and opportunities along the way for addressing these challenges, which recent advances in global flood hazard mapping, modeling, and forecasting evidently demonstrate. Efforts to advance the fields should focus on achieving better accuracy of global model boundary data sets such as precipitation estimates, streamflow simulation, digital elevation models, and also correct implementation of local scale features highly important for flood propagation. This would increase our current ability to simulate floodplain inundation at the global scale more accurately. Output usability of models can be improved by integrating global models efficiently with remotely sensed observations of floods. Thus, there is a need not only to understand the limitations and errors of data and methods but also to develop more sophisticated data processing algorithms, as well as robust frameworks for handling the many heterogeneous geospatial data sets and for effective information management. Despite the many challenges that exist at present and need to be overcome, the science and applications of global flood hazard estimation is currently a fast-moving field with much more significant progress to be expected in upcoming years" -- Provided by publisher's website

The need for mapping, modeling, and predicting flood hazard and risk at the global scale / Philip J. Ward, Erin Coughlan de Perez, Francesco Dottori, Brenden Jongman, Tianyi Luo, Sahar Safaie, and Steffi Uhlemann-Elmer -- Rainfall information for Global Flood Modeling / Daniel B. Wright -- Flood risk mapping from Orbital Remote Sensing / G. Robert Brakenridge -- Flood mapping using synthetic aperture radar sensors from local to global scales / Antara Dasgupta, Stefania Grimaldi, RAAJ Ramsankaran, Valentijn R.N. Pauwels, Jeffrey P. Walker, Marco Chini, Renaud Hostache, and Patrick Matgen -- Flood hazard mapping in data-scarce areas: an application example of regional versus physically based approaches for design flood estimation / Kun Yan, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, and Florian Pappenberger -- Global flood monitoring using Satellite Precipitation and Hydrological Modeling / Huan Wu, Guojun Gu, Yan Yan, Zhen Gao, and Robert F. Adler -- Floor hazard mapping for the humanitarian sector: an opinion piece on needs and views / Kashif Rashid -- Modeling and mapping of Global Flood Hazard Layers / Andrew Smith, Christopher Sampson, Jefferey Neal, Paul D. Bates, Mark Trigg, Jim Freer, Rob Porter, Melanie Kappes, Alanna Simpson, Brenden Jongman, and Kris Johnson -- Estimating change in flooding for the 21st Century under a conservative RCP forcing: a global hydrological modeling assessment / Albert J. Kettner, Sagy Cohen, Irina Overeem, Balazs M. Fekete, G. Robert Brakenridge, and James P.M. Syvitski -- From precipitation to damage: a coupled model chain for spatially coherent, large-scale Flood Risk Assessment / Bruno Merz, Heiko Apel, Dung Nguyen, Daniela Falter, Björn Guse, Yeshewatesfa Hundecha, Heidi Kreibich, Kai Schröter, and Sergiy Vorogushyn -- Global Flood Risk Modeling and projections of Climate Change impacts / Dai Yamazaki, Satoshi Watanabe, and Yukiko Hirabayashi -- Global flood forecasting for averting disasters worldwide / F.A. Hirpa, Florian Pappenberger, L. Arnal, C.A. Baugh, H.L. Cloke, E. Dutra, R.E. Emerton, B. Revilla-Romero, Peter Salamon, P.J. Smith, E. Stephens, F. Wetterhall, E. Zsoter, and J. Thielen-del Pozo -- Data assimilation and River Hydrodynamic Modeling over large scales / Konstantinos M. Andreadis -- Global flood hazard mapping, modeling, and forecasting: challenges and perspectives / Guy Schumann, Paul D. Bates, Heiko Apel, and Giuseppe T. Aronica