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T. Edwin Chow, Joyce Chien and Kimberly Meitzen
The primary objective of this study was to examine the quality of volunteered geographic information (VGI) data for flood mapping of Hurricane Harvey. As a crowdsourcing platform, the U-Flood project mapped flooded streets in the Houston metro area. This...
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Daria Wieslawa Krasiewicz and Grzegorz Wierzbicki
The origin and dynamics of a 2010 pluvial flood in the valley of a large European river are described. In order to study how local people perceive this catastrophic event a small administrative unit (rural municipality) within the Holocene floodplain (th...
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Manudeo Singh and Rajiv Sinha
Floodplain wetlands are critical for sustaining various ecological and hydrological functions in a riverine environment. Severe anthropogenic alterations and human occupation of floodplains have threatened these wetlands in several parts of the world. A ...
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Junhua Li, Mingwu Zhang, Enhui Jiang, Li Pan, Aoxue Wang, Yafei Wang and Shengqi Jian
Flooding in a sediment-laden floodplain is affected by riverine beach vegetation and the shape of a meandering compound channel. The laws of water and sediment exchange and the deposition distribution in beach troughs are very complex. These factors play...
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Yadu Pokhrel, Mateo Burbano, Jacob Roush, Hyunwoo Kang, Venkataramana Sridhar and David W. Hyndman
The ongoing and proposed construction of large-scale hydropower dams in the Mekong river basin is a subject of intense debate and growing international concern due to the unprecedented and potentially irreversible impacts these dams are likely to have on...
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Katarzyna Glinska-Lewczuk, Pawel Burandt, Roman Kujawa, Szymon Kobus, Krystian Obolewski, Julita Dunalska, Magdalena Grabowska, Sylwia Lew and Jaroslaw Chormanski
We evaluated the influence of habitat connectivity and local environmental factors on the distribution and abundance of functional fish groups in 10 floodplain lakes in the Biebrza River, northeastern Poland. Fish were sampled by electrofishing, and 15 p...
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