flash floods
Flash Floods and Groundwater Recharge Potentials in Arid Land Alluvial Basins, Southern Red Sea Coast, Egypt
... The study area is characterized by an arid climate, varies from hot and rainless summer to extremely dry winter. The Tourism Development Authority reported that the region receives occasional very heavy rains over a ...
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FLASH FLOODS IN HIMALAYA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MORI TEHSIL OF UTTARAKHAND, INDIA
... The area also fall in Zones IV and V of Seismic Zonation Map of India and had suffered an earthquake on 1991 which caused weakening of rock masses, landslides and damaged human settlements. High relief, fragile ...
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Direct Impact of Flash Floods in Kuala Lumpur City: Empirical Evidence Based Analysis
... related flash floods affect a significantly high number of people than the fluvial flash ...fluvial flash flood (180) is lesser than the number of evacuations (228) by the same type of ...
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Impacts of river satluj flash floods in Himachal Pradesh, north western Himalayan region
... to flash floods, its direct impact can be seen on the ...as flash floods, cloudburst, landslides and ...the flash flood ...the flash flood, washing away the fertile agricultural ...
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Identification of spatial and temporal contributions of rainfalls to flash floods using neural network modelling: case study on the Lez basin (southern France)
... Abstract. Flash floods pose significant hazards in urbanised zones and have important implications financially and for humans alike in both the present and future due to the likelihood that global climate ...
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Using a multi hypothesis framework to improve the understanding of flow dynamics during flash floods
... 1.2 Flash flood events: understanding flow processes Due to the challenges involved in forecasting flash floods, there has been considerable research done on the subject over the last 10 ...tive ...
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Morphometric Analysis and Flash Floods Assessment for Drainage Basins of the Ras En Naqb Area, South Jordan Using GIS
... slope watersheds are classified as catchments of high flooding susceptibility, while four dip slope watersheds are categorized under intermediate flooding liability. It can be concluded that ten watersheds (83.3%) are ...
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Abstract: In this article, we discuss the cloudburst triggered natural hazards mainly flash floods, rain and
... mainly flash floods, rain and landslides in the Uttarakhand ...brings flash floods, landslides and massive destruction of property and lives almost every year in the ...
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Evidence for flash floods over deserts from loss of coherence in InSAR imagery
... phase coherence between two SAR images is analyzed as an indicator for changes in the soil surface in a small test area in northwestern Africa. The InSAR coherence data are com- bined with satellite-based rainfall ...
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The challenge of forecasting impacts of flash floods: test of a simplified hydraulic approach and validation based on insurance claim data
... moderate floods if the actual flood extent is unknown ...extreme floods studied herein, providing interesting additional information on the accuracy of the whole simulation ...of flash floods ...
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The Assessment of Level of Flash Floods Threat of Urbanised Areas
... Flash floods (or torrential rain flooding) is another type of flood hazard which has caused casualties and significant property damages. A methodology for identification of urban areas, which can ...
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Modelling and understanding the multiple roles of sediment transport in flash floods
... in flash floods were analysed and discussed through simulating a small-scale experiment and a large-scale rapid transient geomorphic ...powerful flash floods induce the sediment into motion ...
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Flash floods simulation using Saint Venant equations
... Flash floods prediction is considered one of the important environmental issues worldwide. In order to predict when and where the flood wave will invade and attack our lives, and provide solutions to deal ...
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Modeling of convective rains for predicting flash floods
... of flash flood (Doswell ...four flash flood events that had occurred in the Klang Valley were ...the flash floods had exhibited convective ...
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Study Of Flash Floods
... A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and ...snowfields. Flash floods are distinguished from a regular flood by a timescale of less than six ...
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Characterization of process oriented hydrologic model behavior with temporal sensitivity analysis for flash floods in Mediterranean catchments
... Monitoring flash floods remains a hard exercise (Borga et ...Few floods of several years return period have been experienced in the six catchments of interest catch- ment since 2002 ...about ...
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A Preliminary Study to Detect Urban Changes and Its Relationship to the Flash Floods Disaster in Jeddah City
... limited planning can contribute to environmental problem [2] [3]. The disaster of Jeddah’s flash flood occurred in November 2009 and January 2011. These two flood events killed 113 people in 2009 and ...
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Mitigation of flash floods in arid regions using adjoint sensitivity analysis
... This paper presents an analysis of the sensitivities of flood wave propagation to variations in certain control variables and boundary conditions by means of the adjoint method. This uses a variational technique to find ...
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Modelling uncertainty for flash floods in coastal plains using adjoint methods
... This paper shows the application of adjoint sensitivity analysis to flash flood wave propagation in a river channel. The adjoint sensitivity analysis is used to assess flood hazard in a coastal area caused by ...
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Landslides, floods and sinkholes in a karst environment: the 1–6 September 2014 Gargano event, southern Italy
... landslides, flash floods, inundation and sinkholes in the in- vestigated period in the Gargano Promontory revealed that the geohydrological hazards occurred in response to extreme rainfall ...and ...
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