Flood risk in urban areas: Modelling, management and adaptation to climate change. A review

L Cea, P Costabile - Hydrology, 2022 - mdpi.com
The modelling and management of flood risk in urban areas are increasingly recognized as
global challenges. The complexity of these issues is a consequence of the existence of …

Toward street‐level nowcasting of flash floods impacts based on HPC hydrodynamic modeling at the watershed scale and high‐resolution weather radar data

P Costabile, C Costanzo, J Kalogiros… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In our era, the rapid increase of parallel programming coupled with high‐performance
computing (HPC) facilities allows for the use of two‐dimensional shallow water equation (2D …

A framework for mechanistic flood inundation forecasting at the metropolitan scale

JE Schubert, A Luke, A AghaKouchak… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Urban flooding from extreme precipitation and storm surge is a growing threat to cities, and
detailed forecasts of urban inundation are needed for emergency response. We present a …

Assessing the national water model's streamflow estimates using a multi-decade retrospective dataset across the contiguous United States

M Abdelkader, M Temimi, TBMJ Ouarda - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The goal of this study is to evaluate the performance of the National Water Model (NWM) in
time and space across the contiguous United States. Retrospective streamflow simulations …

Assessing critical flood-prone districts and optimal shelter zones in the Brahmaputra Valley: Strategies for effective flood risk management

J Debnath, D Sahariah, G Meraj, K Chand… - … of the Earth, Parts a/b/c, 2024 - Elsevier
Frequent flooding has become a persistent issue in floodplain regions, causing significant
disasters during each rainy season due to insufficient disaster management planning. This …

Does flooding get worse with subsiding land? Investigating the impacts of land subsidence on flood inundation from Hurricane Harvey

H Jiang, J Zhang, Y Liu, J Li, ZN Fang - Science of the total environment, 2023 - Elsevier
As one of the most devastating tropical storms, 2017 Hurricane Harvey caused severe
flooding and damage in Houston, Texas. Besides enormous rainfall amount, land …

Multiscale and multi event evaluation of short-range real-time flood forecasting in large metropolitan areas

GA Coelho, CM Ferreira, JL Kinter III - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Many large metropolitan areas are especially susceptible to floods generated by heavy,
short-duration rainfall. The high density of people, buildings and infrastructure in these areas …

Hybrid physics-AI outperforms numerical weather prediction for extreme precipitation nowcasting

P Das, A Posch, N Barber, M Hicks, K Duffy… - npj Climate and …, 2024 - nature.com
Precipitation nowcasting, which is critical for flood emergency and river management, has
remained challenging for decades, although recent developments in deep generative …

[HTML][HTML] Unravelling spatial heterogeneity of inundation pattern domains for 2D analysis of fluvial landscapes and drainage networks

P Costabile, C Costanzo, M Lombardo, E Shavers… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Fluvial landscape analysis is an essential part of geomorphology, hydrology, ecology, and
cartography. It is traditionally focused on the transition between hillslopes and channel …

A VMD-MSMA-LSTM-ARIMA model for precipitation prediction

X Cui, Z Wang, R Pei - Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Accurate prediction of regional precipitation plays an important role in preventing natural
disasters and protection of human life and property. In this study, non-linear monthly …