A Brief review of flood forecasting techniques and their applications

SK Jain, P Mani, SK Jain, P Prakash… - … journal of river basin …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Flood forecasting (FF) is one the most challenging and difficult problems in hydrology.
However, it is also one of the most important problems in hydrology due to its critical …

Climate and human migration: Past experiences, future challenges

RA McLeman - 2013 - books.google.com
Studies warn that global warming and sea level rise will create hundreds of millions of
environmental refugees. While climate change will undoubtedly affect future migration …

Generating ensemble streamflow forecasts: A review of methods and approaches over the past 40 years

M Troin, R Arsenault, AW Wood, F Brissette, JL Martel - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ensemble forecasting applied to the field of hydrology is currently an established area of
research embracing a broad spectrum of operational situations. This work catalogs the …

The science of NOAA's operational hydrologic ensemble forecast service

J Demargne, L Wu, SK Regonda… - Bulletin of the …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) is implementing a short-to long-range Hydrologic
Ensemble Forecast Service (HEFS). The HEFS addresses the need to quantify uncertainty in …

Challenges of operational river forecasting

TC Pagano, AW Wood, MH Ramos… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Skillful and timely streamflow forecasts are critically important to water managers and
emergency protection services. To provide these forecasts, hydrologists must predict the …

On the need of ensemble flood forecast in India

JS Nanditha, V Mishra - Water Security, 2021 - Elsevier
Floods affect a large fraction of the Indian population during the monsoon (June-September)
every year. Floods disrupt all aspects of the socio-economic conditions and cause enormous …

Models of best practice in flood risk communication and management

D Demeritt, S Nobert - Environmental Hazards, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Risk communication plays an increasingly central role in flood risk management, but there is
a variety of conflicting advice about what does–and should–get transmitted, why, how, and …

Do probabilistic forecasts lead to better decisions?

MH Ramos, SJ Van Andel… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2013 - hess.copernicus.org
The last decade has seen growing research in producing probabilistic hydro-meteorological
forecasts and increasing their reliability. This followed the promise that, supplied with …

Why are decisions in flood disaster management so poorly supported by information from flood models?

JG Leskens, M Brugnach, AY Hoekstra… - … modelling & software, 2014 - Elsevier
Flood simulation models can provide practitioners of Flood Disaster Management with
sophisticated estimates of floods. Despite the advantages that flood simulation modeling …

Use of terrestrial laser scanning data to drive decimetric resolution urban inundation models

CC Sampson, TJ Fewtrell, A Duncan, K Shaad… - Advances in water …, 2012 - Elsevier
The advent of airborne LIDAR sparked a renewed research drive in two-dimensional
hydraulic modelling at the turn of the millennium due to its ability to rapidly generate …