Floods in a Changing Climate
Inundation Modelling

Provides modeling tools to create hazard predictions for floodplains, based on state-of-the-art remote sensing data, for academic researchers and professionals.

Giuliano Di Baldassarre (Author)

9781108446754, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 March 2018

119 pages, 79 b/w illus. 13 tables 30 exercises
28 x 21.5 x 0.7 cm, 0.33 kg

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 Simonovi?.

List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Theory: 2. Theoretical background: steady flow Luigia Brandimarte
3. Theoretical background: unsteady flow Ioana Popescu
Part II. Methods: 4. Data sources
5. Model building
6. Model evaluation
7. Model outputs
Part III. Applications: 8. Urban flood modelling Jeffrey C. Neal, Paul D. Bates and Timothy J. Fewtrell
9. Changes in flood propagation caused by human activities
10. Changes of stage-discharge rating curves
11. Evaluation of floodplain management strategies
References
Index.

Subject Areas: The environment [RN], Meteorology & climatology [RBP], Hydrology & the hydrosphere [RBK], Earth sciences [RB], Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning [R]