Abstract:Climate change has resulted in an increasing number of natural catastrophes during the last few decades, such as heatwaves (Z. Li et al., 2018), hurricanes (Weinkle et al., 2018), drought (Trenberth et al., 2014), and especially floods (Mallakpour & Villarini, 2015). Floods have been recognized as the most prevalent natural catastrophe, posing a hazard to the majority of locations worldwide. Floods accounted for 40% of all weather-related disasters, affecting over 1.65 billion people over the previous two deca… Show more
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