12 A widely used land surface model, the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model, is coupled 13 with a newly developed hierarchical dominant river tracing-based runoff-routing model to form 14 the Dominant river tracing-Routing Integrated with VIC Environment (DRIVE) model, which 15 serves as the new core of the real-time Global Flood Monitoring System (GFMS). The GFMS 16 uses real-time sate...

Although the benefits of dam construction are numerous, particularly in the context of climate change and growing global demand for electricity, recent experience has shown that many dams have serious negative environmental, human, and political consequences. Despite an extensive literature documenting the benefits and costs of dams from a single disciplinary perspective, few studies have simul...

There is an increasing demand for a new paradigm to improve flood mitigation decision processes that calls for risk reduction strategies at several levels. This demand may gain ground only if dialogue is encouraged among different perspectives, disciplines and knowledge types. The aim of this paper is to explore new routes to improve flood mitigation decision processes. A growing body of eviden...

agreed to take an initiative on flood prediction, prevention and mitigation. A core group led by the Netherlands and France has prepared a "best practice document" on flood prevention, protection and mitigation to be presented to the Water Directors meeting in Athens in June 2003. The document at hand concerns the " best practice document " , which is an update of the United Nations and Economi...

detention rockfill dams are accounted as economically efficient structures for flood control, river bed and banks protection, flow diversion, etc. as the hydraulic behavior of these structures, when are used for flood control, is affected by the depth of water in their porous media, there are interests to predict water surface profile through the body of these structures. in this research, we d...

A flood warning system is a non-structural measure for flood mitigation. Several parameters are responsible for flood related disasters. This work  illustrates an ordered intuitionistic fuzzy analysis that has the capability to simulate the unknown relations between a set of meteorological and hydrological parameters. In this paper, we first define ordered intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets and est...

Increased energy demand has led to plans for building many new dams in the western Amazon, mostly in the Andean region. Historical data and mechanistic scenarios are used to examine potential impacts above and below six of the largest dams planned for the region, including reductions in downstream sediment and nutrient supplies, changes in downstream flood pulse, changes in upstream and downstr...

Understanding how people view flash flood risks can help improve risk communication, ultimately improving outcomes. This article analyzes data from 26 mental models interviews about flash floods with members of the public in Boulder, Colorado, to understand their perspectives on flash flood risks and mitigation. The analysis includes a comparison between public and professional perspectives by ...

Abstract. Dams are an important element of water resources management. Data about dams crucial for practitioners, scientists, and policymakers various purposes, such as seasonal forecasting availability or flood mitigation. However, detailed information on the national level Germany is so far not freely available. We present most comprehensive open-access dam inventory (DIG) to date. have colle...