First posted February 28, 2023 For additional information, contact: Director, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center U.S. Geological Survey 1505 Ferguson Lane Austin, TX 78754–4501 Contact Pubs Warehouse Floods are one of the most frequent and expensive natural disasters that occur across United States. Rapid, high-water events in local areas––flash floods––are especially difficult for emergency m...

Abstract Floods are frequent hazard in Algeria. They cause severe casualties, destroy infrastructures, and impair economies. In the past decades, Algeria experienced devastating floods. The dominant type of occurring floods flash floods, which tend to be not well documented studied This chapter presents a brief introduction flood phenomena within Algerian climatic management context, based on d...

Abstract. In recent years, flash floods have repeatedly occurred in temperate regions of central western Europe. Unlike Mediterranean catchments, this flooding behaviour is unusual. the past (especially 1990s), been characterized by predictable, slowly rising water levels during winter and driven westerly atmospheric fluxes. Here, we explore potential links causes between occurrence Europe to e...

Flash flood is one of the extremely destructive natural disasters in world. In recent years, extreme rainfall events caused by global climate change have increased, and flash are becoming main types Due to characteristics strong suddenness, complex disaster-causing factors, great difficulty prediction forecast, lack historical data, it difficult effectively prevent control disaster. The early i...

Despite recent technological advances, many parts of the world continue to experience flood disasters accompanied by significant loss human lives. Understanding how frequent these deadly catastrophes are creates uncertainties, especially in areas where disaster records scarce or have short timeframes. It is, however, very important from a preparedness and civil protection standpoint assess freq...