Predicting flood hazard indices in torrential or flashy river basins and catchments

Kvočka, Davor, Ahmadian, Reza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2665-4734 and Falconer, Roger A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5960-2864 2018. Predicting flood hazard indices in torrential or flashy river basins and catchments. Water Resources Management 32 (7) , pp. 2335-2352. 10.1007/s11269-018-1932-6

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Abstract

Flood hazard maps are one of the main components of any flood risk management strategy. It is predicted that the degree of flood risk is going to significantly increase in the future due to climatic and environmental changes, and hence it is increasingly important that state-of-the-art methods are implemented for assessing human stability in floodwaters. Therefore, this paper focuses on proposing more accurate and detailed guidelines for predicting flood hazard indices in small and steep river basins or catchments, prone to the occurrence of flash flooding. The results obtained in this study indicate that for river basins with an average bed gradient greater than 1% (i.e. torrential or flashy river basins or catchments), then the flood hazard indices should be predicted using criteria which are based on the physical interpretation of the processes that affect the human stability in floodwaters, i.e. mechanics based and experimentally calibrated flood hazard assessment methods.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA) Engineering
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
ISSN:	0920-4741
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	18 December 2017
Date of Acceptance:	12 December 2017
Last Modified:	12 Nov 2023 03:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/107642

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