Floods are difficult to prevent but can be managed in order to reduce their environmental, social, cultural, and economic impacts. Flooding poses a serious threat to life and property, and therefore it’s very important that flood risks be taken into account during any planning process. This handbook presents different aspects of flooding in the context of a changing climate and across various geographical locations. Written by experts from around the world, it examines flooding in various climates and landscapes, taking into account environmental, ecological, hydrological, and geomorphic factors, and considers urban, agricultural, rangeland, forest, coastal, and desert areas.
Features:
Presents the main principles and applications of the science of floods, including engineering and technology, natural science, and sociological implications.
Considers floods in urban, agricultural, rangeland, forest, coastal, and desert areas.
Covers flood control structures as well as preparedness and response methods.
Written in a global context, by contributors from around the world.
Preface
Part I : An Introduction to Flooding and Human
Chapter 1 : Floods and People
Part II : Food Observation and Modeling Uncertainty
Chapter 2 : Importance of Hydrological and Meteorological Measurements and Observation Chapter 3 : Flood Observation Uncertainty Chapter 4 : Flood Modeling and Forecasting Uncertainty
Part III : Flood Modeling and Forecasting
Chapter 5 : Empirical Modelling in Design Flood Estimation Chapter 6 : Flood Forecasting Time Series or Flood Frequency Analysis Chapter 7 : Stable Channel Design of Tapi River Using Hec-Ras For Surat Region Chapter 8 : Hydro-Morpho Dynamics of River Junctions Characteristics and Advanced Modeling Chapter 9 : Shallow Water Flow Modelling
Part IV : Flood, River Restoration and Climate Change
Chapter 10 : Modelling Approach in Forecasting Changes Caused By In-Stream River Restoration Structures Chapter 11 : Impact of Climate Change on Flooding Chapter 12 : Sea Level Rise Due to Climate Change
Part V : Flood Optimization and Simulation
Chapter 13 : Real-time Operation of Reservoirs during Flood Conditions using Optimization/Simulation Chapter 14 : Application of%u3000Physically-Based Distributed Flood Models Towards Large-Scale Flood Simulations Chapter 15 : Continuous Large-scale Simulation Models in Flood Studies
Part VI : Flood Softwares
Chapter 16 : Riverine and Flood Modeling Softwares Chapter 17 : Flood Modelling Using Open Source Software Chapter 18 : Iterative Floodway Modelling Using HEC-RAS and GIS Chapter 19 : Flood Plain Mapping using HRC-RAS and ArcGIS Chapter 20 : Geospatial Techniques, Flood Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk Mapping in GIS GAP
Part VII : Flood Regionalization
Chapter 21 : Determining the High Flood Risk Regions Using a Rainfall-Runoff Modeling Chapter 22 : Geostatistics and Flooding-Homogeneous Regions Delineation for Multivariate Regional FA Chapter 23 : Application of L moments Based Index Flood Approach : A Case Study for NSW Chapter 24 : NASA Near-Real-Time Global Precipitation Products for Flood Modeling, Assessment, and Research
Part VIII : Flood Softcomputing
Chapter 25 : Real time Flood Hydrograph Predictions using Soft Computing and Rating Curve Methods Chapter 26 : Application of Integral Transforms in Hydrology Chapter 27 : Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis For Flood Risk Assessment
