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Global Flood Hazard
Subject Category Winner, PROSE Awards 2019, Earth Science
Selected from more than 500 entries, demonstrating exceptional scholarship and making a significant contribution to the field of study.
Flooding is a costly natural disaster in terms of damage to land, property and infrastructure. This volume describes the latest tools and technologies for modeling, mapping, and predicting large-scale flood risk. It also presents readers with a range of remote sensing data sets successfully used for predicting and mapping floods at different scales. These resources can enable policymakers, public planners, and developers to plan for, and respond to, flooding with greater accuracy and effectiveness.
Global Flood Hazard is an indispensable resource for researchers, consultants, practitioners, and policy makers dealing with flood risk, flood disaster response, flood management, and flood mitigation.
Guy J-P. Schumann, University of California Los Angeles, USA and University of Bristol, UK
Paul D. Bates, University of Bristol, UK
Heiko Apel, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany
Giuseppe T. Aronica, University of Messina, Italy
Contributors vii
Preface xi
1 The Need for Mapping, Modeling, and Predicting Flood Hazard and Risk at the Global ScalePhilip J. Ward, Erin Coughlan de Perez, Francesco Dottori, Brenden Jongman, Tianyi Luo, Sahar Safaie, and Steffi Uhlemann‐Elmer 1
Part I: Flood Hazard Mapping and Modeling from Remote Sensing
2 Rainfall Information for Global Flood ModelingDaniel B. Wright 19
3 Flood Risk Mapping From Orbital Remote SensingG. Robert Brakenridge 43
4 Flood Mapping Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Sensors From Local to Global ScalesAntara Dasgupta, Stefania Grimaldi, RAAJ Ramsankaran, Valentijn R. N. Pauwels, Jeffrey P. Walker, Marco Chini, Renaud Hostache, and Patrick Matgen 55
5 Flood Hazard Mapping in Data‐Scarce Areas: An Application Example of Regional Versus Physically Based Approaches for Design Flood EstimationKun Yan, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, and Florian Pappenberger 79
6 Global Flood Monitoring Using Satellite Precipitation and Hydrological ModelingHuan Wu, Guojun Gu, Yan Yan, Zhen Gao, and Robert F. Adler 87
7 Flood Hazard Mapping for the Humanitarian Sector: An Opinion Piece on Needs and ViewsKashif Rashid 115
Part II: Flood Hazard Modeling and Forecasting
8 Modeling and Mapping of Global Flood Hazard LayersAndrew Smith, Christopher Sampson, Jefferey Neal, Paul D. Bates, Mark Trigg, Jim Freer, Rob Porter, Melanie Kappes, Alanna Simpson, Brenden Jongman, and Kris Johnson 133
9 Estimating Change in Flooding for the 21st Century Under a Conservative RCP Forcing: A Global Hydrological Modeling AssessmentAlbert J. Kettner, Sagy Cohen, Irina Overeem, Balazs M. Fekete, G. Robert Brakenridge, and James P. M. Syvitski 157
10 From Precipitation to Damage: A Coupled Model Chain for Spatially Coherent, Large‐Scale Flood Risk AssessmentBruno Merz, Heiko Apel, Dung Nguyen, Daniela Falter, Björn Guse, Yeshewatesfa Hundecha, Heidi Kreibich, Kai Schröter, and Sergiy Vorogushyn 169
11 Global Flood Risk Modeling and Projections of Climate Change ImpactsDai Yamazaki, Satoshi Watanabe, and Yukiko Hirabayashi 185
12 Global Flood Forecasting for Averting Disasters WorldwideF. 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 205
13 Data Assimilation and River Hydrodynamic Modeling Over Large ScalesKonstantinos M. Andreadis 229
14 Global Flood Hazard Mapping, Modeling, and Forecasting: Challenges and PerspectivesGuy Schumann, Paul D. Bates, Heiko Apel, and Giuseppe T. Aronica 239
Index 245
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