Inundation risk for embanked rivers

Flood Risk Management in Rivers and Torrents

Tsunami Inundation Mapping for Alaska Communities

Alaska has the greatest tsunami potential in the entire United States. Historic tsunamis generated by earthquakes on the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone have resulted in widespread damage and loss of life along the Alaskan Pacific coast and other places located at exposed locations around the Pacific Ocean. Large seismic events occurring in the vicinity of the Alaska Peninsula, Aleutian Islands...

Tsunami inundation modeling for western Sumatra.

A long section of the Sunda megathrust south of the great tsunamigenic earthquakes of 2004 and 2005 is well advanced in its seismic cycle and a plausible candidate for rupture in the next few decades. Our computations of tsunami propagation and inundation yield model flow depths and inundations consistent with sparse historical accounts for the last great earthquakes there, in 1797 and 1833. Nu...

Healthy Rivers for Tomorrow

Preface The Healthy Rivers Commission has completed investigations of the coastal catchments of rivers and lakes as referred to it by the NSW Government since 1995. Lessons learnt from those Inquiries have led the Commission to establish a number of key principles and strategies, which it believes are essential to achieving healthy rivers, lakes and catchments. This document advances a vision f...

Inundation discriminated using sun glint

Inundation is linked to water, carbon, and energy budgets at landscape to global scales. We describe a new remote-sensing technique for identifying inundated areas based on the properties of the glitter—the strong, angular signature reflection that is characteristic of surface water and uncharacteristic of other cover types. We discriminated three cover types—vegetation emergent above inundated...