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Application of Convolution Neural Network for Rapid Flood Map** Using Sentinel-1 Imagery—A Case Study in Central Region of Vietnam
Climate change is becoming more and more serious leading to extreme weather events, such as drought, storm, flood, etc. occurring with increasing...
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Flash Flood Hazard Map** Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process for a Complex Terrain: A Case Study of Chu Lai Peninsula, Vietnam
Flooding prediction for a large scale area has been popularly carried out, nevertheless flood hazard assessment for a small, complex terrain for...
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Unraveling the complexities of urban fluvial flood hydraulics through AI
As urbanization increases across the globe, urban flooding is an ever-pressing concern. Urban fluvial systems are highly complex, depending on a...
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Develo** a novel parameter-free optimization framework for flood routing
The Muskingum model is a popular hydrologic flood routing technique; however, the accurate estimation of model parameters challenges the effective,...
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Evaluation and promotion strategy of resilience of urban water supply system under flood and drought disasters
With global climate change and the rapid urbanization, urban flood and drought disasters are frequent and urban water supply systems are facing a sea...
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Applicability of a nationwide flood forecasting system for Typhoon Hagibis 2019
Floods can be devastating in densely populated regions along rivers, so attaining a longer forecast lead time with high accuracy is essential for...
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Using persistent homology as preprocessing of early warning signals for critical transition in flood
Flood early warning systems (FLEWSs) contribute remarkably to reducing economic and life losses during a flood. The theory of critical slowing down...
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Role of dams in reducing global flood exposure under climate change
Globally, flood risk is projected to increase in the future due to climate change and population growth. Here, we quantify the role of dams in flood...
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Influences of conservation measures on runoff and sediment yield in different intra-event-based flood regimes in the Chabagou watershed
The Loess Plateau in China has suffered severe soil erosion. To control soil erosion, extensive conservation measures aimed at redistributing...
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Towards global flood map** onboard low cost satellites with machine learning
Spaceborne Earth observation is a key technology for flood response, offering valuable information to decision makers on the ground. Very large...
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Climate signals in river flood damages emerge under sound regional disaggregation
Climate change affects precipitation patterns. Here, we investigate whether its signals are already detectable in reported river flood damages. We...
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Novel use of social media to assess and improve coastal flood forecasts and hazard alerts
Coastal communities and infrastructure need protection from flooding and wave overtop** events. Assessment of hazard prediction methods, used in...
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Origin and variability of statistical dependencies between peak, volume, and duration of rainfall-driven flood events
Floods are among the most common and impactful natural events. The hazard of a flood event depends on its peak (Q), volume (V) and duration (D),...
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Assessing the susceptibility of schools to flood events in Iran
Catastrophic floods cause deaths, injuries, and property damages in communities around the world. The losses can be worse among those who are more...
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Biases in national and continental flood risk assessments by ignoring spatial dependence
Recently, flood risk assessments have been extended to national and continental scales. Most of these assessments assume homogeneous scenarios, i.e....
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Neglecting uncertainties biases house-elevation decisions to manage riverine flood risks
Homeowners around the world elevate houses to manage flood risks. Deciding how high to elevate a house poses a nontrivial decision problem. The U.S....
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New insights into US flood vulnerability revealed from flood insurance big data
Improvements in modelling power and input data have vastly improved the precision of physical flood models, but translation into economic outputs...
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Seven centuries of reconstructed Brahmaputra River discharge demonstrate underestimated high discharge and flood hazard frequency
The lower Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh and Northeast India often floods during the monsoon season, with catastrophic consequences for people...
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Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years
There are concerns that recent climate change is altering the frequency and magnitude of river floods in an unprecedented way
1 . Historical studies...