Global flood exposure from different sized rivers

Flood Risk Management in Rivers and Torrents

Mitigating flood exposure

Introduction. In 2011, following heavy winter snowfall, two cities bordering two rivers in North Dakota, USA faced major flood threats. Flooding was foreseeable and predictable although the extent of risk was uncertain. One community, Fargo, situated in a shallow river basin, successfully mitigated and prevented flooding. For the other community, Minot, located in a deep river valley, preventio...

Generalized Exponential Distribution in Flood Frequency Analysis for Polish Rivers.

Many distributions have been used in flood frequency analysis (FFA) for fitting the flood extremes data. However, as shown in the paper, the scatter of Polish data plotted on the moment ratio diagram shows that there is still room for a new model. In the paper, we study the usefulness of the generalized exponential (GE) distribution in flood frequency analysis for Polish Rivers. We investigate ...

1 Six Rivers , Five Glaciers , and an Outburst Flood

The waters of the modern Illinois River flow gently through looping meanders bordered by quiet backwater lakes and drop only a few inches in each river mile. Concealed beneath this gentle river is geologic evidence that the Illinois descended from ancient rivers with surprising and sometimes violent histories. The geologic story of the Illinois River is not only an account of an interesting cha...

The Global Flood Detection System

A methodology for satellite based flood detection developed at Dartmouth Flood Observatory (DFO) wasmodified at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and implemented on an automaticoperational basis. The technique is using AMSR-E passive microwave remote sensing data of the descendingorbit, H polarization, 36 GHz band which is sensitive to water surface chan...