El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most dominant interannual signal of climate variability and has a strong influence on climate over large parts of the world. In turn, it strongly influences many natural hazards (such as hurricanes and droughts) and their resulting socioeconomic impacts, including economic damage and loss of life. However, although ENSO is known to influence hydrology ...

Once a landslide dam bursts, its reservoir discharges quickly in a flood which will cause catastrophic damage to life and property downstream. For a specific landslide dam, the peak flow rate and the evolution of downstream flood are influenced by the shape and size of the dike breach when dam-break occurs. According to the general nature of landslide dams and field observations of dike-breach ...

This paper presents a novel framework that links imprecision (through a fuzzy approach) and stochastic uncertainty (through a Bayesian approach) in estimating flood probabilities from historical flood information and systematic flood discharge data. The method exploits the linguistic characteristics of historical source material to construct membership functions, which may be wider or narrower,...

• A database with flash floods and heavy rainfall events in Germany 2 URBAS project overview • Improving quality of flash flood forecasts URBAS is organised in an interdisciplanery manner. Aspects from city planning, hydrology, hydraulics, meteorology, damage assessment, emergency planning, and insurance issues are playing important roles. In order to get an overview over occurrence of urban fl...

The damage scale and damage area in the coast have been increased dramatically because of calamities such as typhoon, tidal wave, flood and storm. Especially, 409 cases, which reach to about 40.9% of natural disasters of 1,000 cases for the recent 15 years have happened on coast area. More than 40% of natural disasters also occurred every year is happening in coastland. Therefore, there is a gr...

Bangladesh suffered damage on accounts of the most catastrophic flood during the year of 1988, resulting in untold suffering to the people, crops were lost, lives were lost, infrastructures were damaged, and so on. The flood problem is therefore great important. The present study dealt by using MOS-1, MESSR data with other thematic maps to evaluate the affect and damage area in collaboration wi...

Historically, flooding has resulted in considerable losses, both in property damage and lives lost, throughout the world. According to a report by Guha-Sapir et al. (2013), 53 percent of the total number of victims of natural disasters worldwide in 2012 was victims of floods. Data from the International Disaster Database (2013) likewise show that flooding affects millions of people1 and causes ...

The long term psychological effect of the distress and trauma caused by the memory of damage and losses associated with flooding of communities remains an under researched impact of flooding. This is particularly important for communities that are likely to be repeatedly flooded where levels of mental health disorder will damage long term resilience to future flooding. There are a variety of fa...