For close to 70 years, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has provided seasonal water supply outlooks for use by Western US water managers. These outlooks are a critical component in effective water management and are utilized by a broad spectrum of users for a variety of purposes, ranging from irrigated agriculture, flood control, municipal water supply, endangered species prote...

In this article a preliminary analysis of the loss of life caused by Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans metropolitan area is presented. The hurricane caused more than 1,100 fatalities in the state of Louisiana. A preliminary data set that gives information on the recovery locations and individual characteristics for 771 fatalities has been analyzed. One-third of the analyzed fatalities occurr...

We demonstrate the use of sensitivity analysis to rank sources of uncertainty in models for economic appraisal of flood risk management policies, taking into account spatial scale issues. A methodology of multi-scale variance-based global sensitivity analysis is developed, and illustrated on the NOE model on the Orb River, France. The variability of the amount of expected annual flood avoided d...

Abstract: Flood waves resulting from dam break and spillway gate malfunction may have dramatic impacts. Two related cases are the overtopping of a dam by flood waves and a sudden water release down a stepped cascade. In each instance, some energy dissipation takes place and classical dam break theory are inappropriate. Both cases were investigated in large-size facilities and in a prototype. Ne...

The Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM) is a joint initiative of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Global Water Partnership (GWP). It promotes the concept of Integrated Flood Management (IFM) as a new approach to flood management. The programme is financially supported by the governments of Japan, Switzerland and Germany. The World Meteorological Organization is a ...

Rice is an essential crop in Iran that is grown mostly in areas where depth to groundwater is low. Root growth and water uptake of rice under shallow groundwater has not been thoroughly studied. This experiment was conducted to determine the lowland rice (cv. Ghasrodashti) root distribution above shallow groundwater in relation to deficit irrigation and groundwater depth in cylindrical gre...

Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Abstract The Okavango Delta is a flood-pulsed wetland, the resources of which support a large tourism industry and ...

Inundation models based on the Shallow Water Equations (SWE) have been shown to perform well for a 3 wide variety of situations even at the limit of their theoretical applicability and, arguably, somewhat beyond. One of 4 these situations is the catastrophic event of floods induced by dyke breach and consequent dyke erosion. The dyke 5 collapse is often not sudden as assumed by many flood simul...

Increased surface runoff generated in urban areas due to larger proportion of impervious surfaces has, in many cases, exceeded the capacity of urban drainage systems. In response to such challenge, this paper introduces the quantitative analysis of pluvial flood alleviation by open surface water systems in the case of Almere in the Netherlands and compares it with Tianjin Eco-City in China, wit...

0022-1694/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.02.022 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (T.A. Russo). We present results of an observational and modeling study of the hydrologic response of a riparian wetland to controlled flooding. The study site is located in Poopenaut Valley, Yosemite National Park (USA), adjacent to the Tuolumne River. Thi...