Floods in a changing climate

by Di Baldassarre, Giuliano

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Full title :Floods in a changing climate. / Giuliano Di Baldassarre.

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"Flood inundation models enable us to make hazard predictions for floodplains, mitigating increasing flood fatalities and losses. This book provides an understanding of hydraulic modelling and floodplain dynamics, with a key focus on state-of-the-art remote sensing data, and methods to estimate and communicate uncertainty. Academic researchers in the fields of hydrology, climate change, environmental science and natural hazards, and professionals and policy-makers working in flood risk mitigation, hydraulic engineering and remote sensing will find this an invaluable resource. This volume is the third in a collection of four books on flood disaster management theory and practice within the context of anthropogenic climate change. The others are: Floods in a Changing Climate: Extreme Precipitation by Ramesh Teegavarapu, Floods in a Changing Climate: Hydrological Modeling by P.P. Mujumdar and D. Nagesh Kumar and Floods in a Changing Climate: Risk Management by Slodoban Simonović"--

"Floodplains are among the most valuable ecosystems for supporting biodiversity and providing environmental services, and are also home to approximately one-sixth of the world population. As a result, flood disasters currently affect more than 100 million people a year. Flood inundation models are a valuable tool in mitigating increasing flood fatalities and losses. This book demonstrates how these models enable us to make hazard predictions for floodplains, support appropriate land-use and urban planning, and help discourage new human settlements in flood prone areas. It provides an understanding of hydraulic modelling and floodplain dynamics, with a key focus on state-of-the-art remote sensing data, and methods to estimate and communicate uncertainty. Additional software and data tools to support the book are accessible online at www.cambridge.org/dibaldassarre"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781139840170, 1139840177, 9781139088411, 1139088416, 9781139842556, 1139842552, 9781139844918, 1139844911, 9781139844918
oclc:ocn817706457
LC Classification:TC409
Dewey Decimal:551.48/9011

Contributing authors -- Forewords -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Floods: natural processes and (un)natural disasters -- 1.2 Definitions -- 1.3 Flood inundation modelling -- 1.4 Climate and floods -- 1.5 Problems addressed by this book -- Part I Theory -- 2 Theoretical background: steady flow -- 2.1 Uniform flow -- 2.2 Subcritical and supercritical flows -- 2.3 Water surface profiles -- 2.4 Backwater computation -- 2.5 Exercises -- 3 Theoretical background: unsteady flow -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Navier-Stokes equations -- 3.2.1 Continuity equation -- 3.2.2 Momentum equation -- 3.3 Saint-Venant equations -- 3.4 Kinematic wave model -- 3.5 Diffusive model -- 3.6 Fully dynamic model -- 3.7 Conclusions -- 3.8 Exercises -- Part II Methods -- 4 Data sources -- 4.1 Ground data -- 4.1.1 Topography -- 4.1.2 Hydrometry -- 4.1.3 High flood marks -- 4.2 Remote sensing data -- 4.2.1 Topography -- 4.2.2 Flood extent maps -- 4.2.3 Flood water levels -- 4.3 Uncertainty -- 4.3.1 Uncertainty in river discharges -- 4.3.2 Uncertainty in space-borne flood extent maps -- 4.4 Conclusions and perspectives -- 4.5 Exercises -- 5 Model building -- 5.1 Modelling approaches -- 5.1.1 Flood propagation an…

Subjects

Climat -- Changements climate change Climatic changes Dommages causés par les inondations -- … Flood damage prevention flood plains Floodplain management Floodplains Hydrogeological modeling Modèles hydrogéologiques Plaines inondables Plaines inondables -- Gestion SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences