Flood Handbook

Written by experts from around the world, this handbook presents different aspects of flooding in the context of changing climate and across geographical locations.

Part I: An Introduction to Flooding and Human

1. Floods and People-Colin Green
Part II: Food Observation and Modeling Uncertainty



2. Importance of Hydrological and Meteorological Measurements and Observation


3. Flood Observation Uncertainty-Jean-François Vuillaume


4. Flood Modeling and Forecasting Uncertainty-Jean-François Vuillaume
Part III: Flood Modeling and Forecasting


5. Empirical Modelling in Design Flood Estimation-Akshay Rajan Thorvat


6. Flood Forecasting Time Series or Flood Frequency Analysis-Priyanka Sharma


7. Stable Channel Design of Tapi River Using Hec-Ras For Surat Region-Darshan J. Mehta


8. Hydro-Morpho Dynamics of River Junctions Characteristics and Advanced Modeling-Hydar Lafta Ali


9. Shallow Water Flow Modelling-Franziska Tügel

Part IV: Flood, River Restoration and Climate Change


10. Modelling Approach in Forecasting Changes Caused By In-Stream River Restoration Structures-Tomasz Kaluzal


11. Impact of Climate Change on Flooding-Conrad Wasko


12. Sea Level Rise Due to Climate Change- Brij Bhushan
Part V: Flood Optimization and Simulation


13. Real-time Operation of Reservoirs during Flood Conditions using Optimization/Simulation-Larry Mays


14. Application of Physically-Based Distributed Flood Models Towards Large-Scale Flood Simulations-S. Saksena


15. Continuous Large-scale Simulation Models in Flood Studies-Rouzbeh Nazari
Part VI: Flood Softwares


16. Riverine and Flood Modeling Softwares-Mustafa Goodarzi


17. Flood Modelling Using Open Source Software-Thomas J Scanlon


18. Iterative Floodway Modelling Using HEC-RAS and GIS- Majid Galoie


19. Flood Plain Mapping using HRC-RAS and ArcGIS-Mehdi Vafakhah


20. Geospatial Techniques, Flood Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk Mapping in GIS GAP-Ali Akbar Jamali
Part VII: Flood Regionalization


21. Determining the High Flood Risk Regions Using a Rainfall-Runoff Modeling- Iftekhar Ahmed


22. Geostatistics and Flooding-Homogeneous Regions Delineation for Multivariate Regional FA-E. Gargouri


23. Application of L moments Based Index Flood Approach: A Case Study for NSW, Ayesha Rahman


24. NASA Near-Real-Time Global Precipitation Products for Flood Modeling, Assessment, and Research- Zhong Liu
Part VIII: Flood Softcomputing


25. Real time Flood Hydrograph Predictions using Soft Computing and Rating Curve Methods- Gokmen Tayfur


26. Application of Integral Transforms in Hydrology-Vahid Nourani


27. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis For Flood Risk Assessment-Daniel Jato-Espino