Flood risk can be reduced by means of flood forecasting, warning and response systems (FFWRS). These systems include a forecasting subsystem which is imperfect, meaning that inherent uncertainties in hydrological forecasts may result in false alarms and missed events. This forecasting uncertainty decreases the potential reduction of flood risk, but is seldom accounted for in estimates of the be...

Flood simulation and forecasting in various types of watersheds is a hot issue in hydrology. Conceptual hydrological models have been widely applied to flood forecasting for decades. With the development of economy, modern China faces with severe flood disasters in all types of watersheds include humid, semi-humid semi-arid and arid watersheds. However, conceptual model-based flood forecasting ...

Mutual exclusion is directly related to a host of selections at both system and component levels; is responsible for diversification; and gives rise to uniqueness. Mutual exclusion is also evident in modelling and flood forecasting, be it in models, software tools, data, modelling practices, flood forecasting and warning issues, and management systems. The emerging picture is that (i) diversity...

The application of a flash-flood prediction chain, developed by CIMA, to some testcases for the Tanaro river basin in the framework of the EU project HYDROPTIMET is presented here. The components of the CIMA chain are: forecast rainfall depths, a stochastic downscaling procedure and a hydrological model. Different meteorological Limited Area Models (LAMs) provide the rainfall input to the hydro...

Citation: Mason DC, Garcia-Pintado J, Cloke HL and Dance SL (2015) The potential of flood forecasting using a variable-resolution global Digital Terrain Model and flood extents from Synthetic Aperture Radar images. Front. Earth Sci. 3:43. doi: 10.3389/feart.2015.00043 The potential of flood forecasting using a variable-resolution global Digital Terrain Model and flood extents from Synthetic Ape...

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...

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is the lead national agency for flood forecasting and warning services in Australia, working in partnership with agencies at the State and Local Government levels. These services cover river basins with response times ranging from 6-12 hours through to very large basins with flood travel times of the order of weeks. Flash flood warning services are also prov...

A reliable flood warning system depends on efficient and accurate forecasting technology. A systematic investigation of three common types of artificial neural networks (ANNs) for multi-stepahead (MSA) flood forecasting is presented. The operating mechanisms and principles of the three types of MSA neural networks are explored: multi-input multi-output (MIMO), multi-input single-output (MISO) a...