Reducing uncertainty in small-catchment flood peak estimation

Reducing Uncertainty in River Flood Conveyance

Estimation uncertainty of direct monetary flood damage to buildings

Traditional flood design methods are increasingly supplemented or replaced by risk-oriented methods which are based on comprehensive risk analyses. Besides meteorological, hydrological and hydraulic investigations such analyses require the estimation of flood impacts. Flood impact assessments mainly focus on direct economic losses using damage functions which relate property damage to damagecau...

A limits of acceptability approach to model evaluation and uncertainty estimation in flood frequency estimation by continuous simulation: Skalka catchment, Czech Republic

[1] In this study continuous simulation flood frequency predictions on the Skalka catchment in the Czech Republic (672 km, range of altitudes from 460 to 1041 m above sea level), are compared against summary information of rainfall characteristics, the flow duration curve, and the frequency characteristics of flood discharges and snow water equivalent using the generalized likelihood uncertaint...

Flood Estimation for a Cloudburst Event in an Ungauged Western Himalayan Catchment

Cloud burst is one of the reasons of flash flood in hilly regions. Such events are devastating as these induce landslides and boulder movement along with shooting velocity of water in hilly areas. This results in huge change of momentum and hence the large force. This force along with flood movement causes heavy loss of life and property. Cloudburst is a sudden aggressive rainstorm of small dur...

Actif Best Practice Paper – Understanding and Reducing Uncertainty in Flood Forecasting

The overall the aim of the ACTIF project is to produce guidance from a cluster of European Commission (EC) funded research projects commissioned under the Fifth Framework Programme. The guidance will reflect state-of-the-art information to improve the diversity of practices, institutional arrangements and management targets currently present in Europe. It should be noted that United Nations and...