Significant Floods in the United States During the 20th century - USGS Measures a Century of Floods

Perry, Charles A.

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“…Floods have also been classified into three main types namely; river flood, flash flood and storm surge (Perry, 2000;Berz et al, 2001;Kron, 2002;Jonkman, 2005). Perry (2000) further categorizes floods as ice-jam floods, dam-and levee-failure floods debris, landslide and mudflow floods but emphasizes that these types are rather less common.…”

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“…These two elements are then useful in defining the spatial and temporal scale of flood events consequently leading to two main classes of extensive long lasting floods and local sudden floods (Bronstert, 2003). Floods have also been classified into three main types namely; river flood, flash flood and storm surge (Perry, 2000;Berz et al, 2001;Kron, 2002;Jonkman, 2005). Perry (2000) further categorizes floods as ice-jam floods, dam-and levee-failure floods debris, landslide and mudflow floods but emphasizes that these types are rather less common.…”

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“…Floods stand out to be the most frequent and devastating natural disaster around the world (Berz et al, 2001;ISDR, 2004;Sanyal and Lu, 2004), affecting an average of 99 million people per year between 2000(WHO, 2010. According to Jonkman (2005), floods alone killed 100,000 persons and affected 1.4 billion people in the last decade of the 20 th century.…”

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Application of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems in Flood Management: A Review

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2013

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Floods are one of the most widely distributed hazards around the world and their management is an important issue of concern among all the stakeholders. The aim of this review is to synthesize the state of art literature in the application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) techniques in all the flood management stages (pre-flood, during flood and post-flood stages). Flood types and common concepts in flood management are precisely explained. Case studies of flood management using GIS and RS are summarized. Current challenges in using GIS and RS techniques for flood management are also given. One lesson we learn from this review is that flood management is very diverse and it requires multidisciplinary involvement. It can also be deduced that RS techniques offer cheaper and faster options of accessing spatial data about the flood event even in the physically inaccessible areas. GIS techniques on the other hand facilitate hydrological models in data collection, analysis, querying and presentation of information in a more simplified format. The present review is expected to contribute to an improved understanding of the potential applications of RS and GIS techniques in flood management, especially among scientists in the developing countries where the use of these techniques particularly in flood management has generally been limited.

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Application of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems in Flood Management: A Review

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2013

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“…It is even forecasted that the incidence of floods in Europe will double by 2050 while annual economic losses resulting from them will increase five folds (Conner, 2014). Thirty-two major floods occurred in the United States in the 20 th Century (Perry, 2000).…”

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Flood Vulnerability Modelling Factors of Nafada Town, Gombe State, Nigeria Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

2016

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This study employs the integrated approach of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques in flood management with the goal of deriving flood vulnerability modelling factors. Flood vulnerability studies have become more efficient in recent years because of the availability of advanced computational facilities and use of GIS. Almost every year, Nafada Town has been experiencing repeated flooding during the rainy season (July to September). As a consequence, properties are lost or destroyed and sometimes lives are lost. The aim of this research is to develop factors that could be used in flood vulnerability modelling of terrain features that favored the incidence of the floods as part of the solution to the problem. The objectives were to process Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) Scene 186/052 with a resolution of 90m·90m which covered the study area, downloaded from United State Geological Surveys (USGS) and the factors were obtained. These fetors were fill sink (elevation), terrain wetness index, proximity to river and overland flow length using the Integrated Land and water information system (ILWIS 3.3) Software, the factors were then classified using Natural breaks extension of ArcGIS 9.3 software. Hence, GIS techniques were proved to be useful in deriving the flood vulnerability modelling factors in a time and cost effective manner. It is recommended that GIS methods should be incorporated in planning and management of floods in the study area and further study should be conducted to combine these factors to develop a flood vulnerability model of the area.

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“…Floods were the number one natural disaster in the US in terms of the lives lost and property damage during the 20th century (Perry, 2000). Statistics show that from 2006 to 2015, total flood insurance claims averaged more than $1.9 billion per year (NFIP Statistics, 2016).…”

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Cyberinfrastructure to Support Flood Modeling from Catchment to Regional Scales

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Flooding events are projected to increase in frequency and intensity in coming years due to climate change. New tools and approaches are needed to assist decision makers in better understanding and addressing societal impacts due to flooding and how to mitigate these impacts.This research addressed three challenges related to flooding impacts: (i) better understanding how distributed stormwater infrastructure can mitigate flooding in urban catchments, (ii) designing and building spatially-detailed, real-time flood warning systems for emergency management purposes, and (iii) designing and building cyberinfrastructure to support reuse and transparency in both flood modeling and hydrologic modeling more broadly. The goal of this research was to address these challenges by conducting three studies. The second study explored building an automated cloud-based system for forecasting flooded roadway and bridge locations at a regional-scale. Because the study area has very low topographic relief, a two-dimensional (2D), computationally-expensive hydrodynamic model is required. This study demonstrated the ability of using instances in a public cloud with powerful graphical processing units (GPUs) to run a large (average of 4 million nodes) 2D hydrodynamic model in a time frame relevant to real-time emergency management applications. The steps required to build this system were (i) creating an automated workflow for obtaining and processing ii forecast rainfall data, (ii) running the 2D model in the cloud, (iii) using geospatial analysis tools to identify flooded bridges, and (iv) presenting the results online for decision makers. The system automates forecast data access and pre-processing, execution of a high-resolution 2D hydrodynamic model, and map-based visualization of model outputs using Amazon Web Services (AWS).The third study advanced approaches for sharing hydrologic models, such as the models created in this dissertation, through community supported cyberinfrastructure. Sharing models is important for scientific reproducibility, reuse, and fidelity. In this study, the first task was to design a metadata framework for hydrologic models that is flexible and applicable across the wide variety of models used by hydrologists. Then the study demonstrated the utility of this framework for sharing, publishing, and reusing models through an implementation within the HydroShare cyberinfrastructure system.In the first study, the results suggest that rain gardens with 30 cm berm heights and a total area equal to 20% of the impervious surfaces within the watershed should provide sufficient storage to mitigate flooding for rain events up to and including a 10 year return period storm event.The results also suggest approximately 15%, 27%, and 38% of the runoff generated from impervious surfaces should be diverted to the rain gardens to mitigate flooding from 2, 5, and 10 year return period storm events, respectively. Given prior work on the adoption of LID approaches for other watersheds, rain gardens could effectivel...

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Significant Floods in the United States During the 20th century - USGS Measures a Century of Floods

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Application of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems in Flood Management: A Review

Application of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems in Flood Management: A Review

Flood Vulnerability Modelling Factors of Nafada Town, Gombe State, Nigeria Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

Cyberinfrastructure to Support Flood Modeling from Catchment to Regional Scales

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