Abstract Anomalies in the frequency of river floods, i.e., flood-rich or -poor periods, cause biases flood risk estimates and thus make climate adaptation measures less efficient. While observations have recently confirmed presence anomalies Europe, their exact causes are not clear. Here we analyse streamflow during 1960-2010 to show that shifts generation processes contribute more occurrence r...

The effectiveness of three simple flood operating rules in reducing the peak flow is compared for four simplified hydrograph shapes. The Minimize Flood Peak rule uses available flood storage capacity to store peak flows from an accurate hydrograph forecast. The less demanding Minimize Flooding Frequency operating rule releases water at or below channel capacity until the flood storage pool is f...

In the United States, estimation of flood frequency quantiles at ungauged locations has been largely based on regional regression techniques that relate measurable catchment descriptors to flood quantiles. More recently, spatial interpolation techniques of point data have been shown to be effective for predicting streamflow statistics (i.e., flood flows and low-flow indices) in ungauged catchme...

The FloodRISE hazard maps produced for the Tijuana River Valley and the Goat Canyon Watershed resulted from three distinct tasks: flood frequency analysis (FFA), hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, and post-processing of model output. Generally speaking, FFA estimates the recurrence interval of rare flooding events, while hydrologic and hydraulic modeling predicts the hazards associated with sim...

Modern joint probability methods for estimating storm surge or flood statistics are based on statistical aggregation of many hydrodynamic simulations that can be computationally expensive. Flood risk assessments that consider changing future conditions due to sea level rise or other drivers often require each storm to be run under a range of uncertain scenarios. Evaluating different flood risk ...

The worsening condition of floods in Malaysia, in terms of frequency and impact, calls for improvement in all aspects of flood management. In addition to technology enhancement of, and developing expertise, it is hoped that improvement on the governance of flood management could alleviate the problems relating to floods. Governance of flood management aims to address the issues related to flood...