Flood Management, Flood Forecasting and Warning System

Abstract

Flood phenomenon annually causes many human and financial losses so that flood has even had many losses in countries which are properly developed in river bank protection and construction of reservoir dams aiming to control flood. Today, controlling flood through its management is discussed and one of efficient and effective tools in this field is non-structural flood management as the complementary of structural ones that can have a very important role in controlling flood and consequently reducing the losses derived by that. Flood forecasting and warning systems are considered as one of the non-structural management tools which has given high importance within recent decades and providing information about flood and fast and easy reaction after receiving mentioned information to have minimum losses in flood areas as well as providing some information to manage water resources are of the aims of this system.

Journal of Water and Land Development

“…Structural flood management methods are a subset of flood management which includes the role of the structure and its operation [LIU et al 2019;KHOSRAVI et al 2022]. Many of these methods have a history of several thousand years [AFSHAR et al 2021;HAJIBABAEI, GHASEMI 2017;LODGE 2019;YAVARI et al 2022]. Structural methods of flood management include flood walls and levees, channel modification, and detention basin.…”