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Ashraf Abdelkarim and Ahmed F.D. Gaber
This study aims to assess the impact of flash floods in the Wadi Nu?man basin on urban areas, east of Mecca, which are subjected to frequent floods, during the period from 1988?2019. By producing and analyzing the maps of the regions, an integrated appro...
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Heba El-Bagoury and Ahmed Gad
Flooding is a natural disaster with extensive impacts. Desert regions face altered flooding patterns owing to climate change, water scarcity, regulations, and rising water demands. This study assessed and predicted flash flood hazards by calculating disc...
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Hazem M. Eldeeb, Ali Ibrahim, Magdy H. Mowafy, Martina Zelenáková, Hany F. Abd-Elhamid, Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik and Mahmoud T. Ghonim
Dams are built for different purposes, but failure of a dam could result in extreme disasters such as floods. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was mainly built for power generation, but concerns about its safety, location and site conditions ha...
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Christos Mattas, Dimitris Karpouzos, Pantazis Georgiou and Theodoros Tsapanos
Dams are expensive technical constructions that ensure food production, sustain farmers? income, and cover a large percentage of urban water supply demands. However, the threat of a dam break flood, which can be extremely dangerous for the local society,...
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Kimberly M. Meitzen, Clinton R. Robertson, Jennifer L. Jensen, Daniel J. Daugherty, Thomas B. Hardy and Kevin B. Mayes
We developed a floodplain inundation model to extract specific flood extent and depth parameters and combined these with vegetation land cover and historic flow data to quantify spatial habitat suitability and temporal hydrologic metrics that support All...
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Parth Gangani, Nikunj K. Mangukiya, Darshan J. Mehta, Nitin Muttil and Upaka Rathnayake
Floods are among the most occurring natural hazards that cause severe damage to infrastructure and loss of life. In India, southern Gujarat is affected during the monsoon season, facing multiple flood events in the Damanganga basin. As the basin is one o...
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Nikolaos Xafoulis, Yiannis Kontos, Evangelia Farsirotou, Spyridon Kotsopoulos, Konstantinos Perifanos, Nikolaos Alamanis, Dimitrios Dedousis and Konstantinos Katsifarakis
Floods are lethal and destructive natural hazards. The Mediterranean, including Greece, has recently experienced many flood events (e.g., Medicanes Zorbas and Ianos), while climate change results in more frequent and intense flood events. Accurate flood ...
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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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Kazi Samsunnahar Mita, Philip Orton, Franco Montalto, Firas Saleh and Julia Rockwell
Flooding is becoming more frequent along U.S. coastlines due to the rising impacts of fluvial and coastal flood sources, as well as their compound effects. However, we have a limited understanding of mechanisms whereby sea level rise (SLR) changes flood ...
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Lea Cubanová, Ján Rumann, Alexandra Vidová, Wael Almikaeel and Filip Rebenda
Nature-like fish passes are commonly designed as a preferred way to overcome barriers in rivers. However, meeting the recommended hydraulic parameters for these passes can be challenging. As a result, boulders or sills are often incorporated to supplemen...
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