Article gives a review of sea floods on Slovenian cost with emphasis on their formation, extent and consequences. Sea floods are occuring every year, but they vary in frequency and extent. Consequently, the damage caused by floods also varies. Sea
floods rise with flood tides, strong south winds and drops in air pressure. They are more frequent in autumn and winter, but they occur in spring too. The article presents a complete review of sea floods from the beginning of measurements in Koper
to present-day, an analysis of flooded regions and influence of climate changes on sea floods. - (IKR)
Flooding features in Bangkok and vicinity: geographical approach : International Symposium on flood disaster reduction in South-East Asia
Drainage ; Flood control ; Human impact ; Hydraulic works ; Inundation ; Land use ; Monsoon ; Natural hazards ; Precipitation ; Thailand
Nowadays, floods are no longer controlled by nature. There are human factors such as urbanization, land use, and irrigation systems etc. These factors caused more complex flooding in the Chao Phraya plain. Bangkok and vicinity, S of Chao Phraya
delta has flooding every year, because some areas are below the mean sea level. The A. presents the factors of flooding and proposals of flood protection.
Construction of watershed flood disaster management information system and its application to the catastrophic flood of the Yangtze River in 1998
Catastrophe ; China ; Flood ; Forecast ; Geographical information system ; Hydraulic works ; Jiangxi ; Lake ; Watershed
Watershed flood disaster management concerns monitoring and forecasting flood, assessing the flood damage and flood control and disaster reduction decision making in the scope of the whole watershed. Remote sensing and Geographical Information
System are powerful tools to construct Watershed Flood Disaster Management Information System (WFDMIS). In this paper, the design and implementation of WFDMIS are discussed. An application example in Poyang Lake Basin is given.
A flood disaster information system and its application
Catastrophe ; China ; Flood ; Forecast;Prediction ; Numerical model ; Remote sensing ; Statistics
This paper describes the conceptual framework and design characteristics of creating a Flood Disaster Information System (FDIS), and its application experiences in China. During the 1991 flood disaster in China, the system and related techniques
were used on Huaihe River of central China and Taihu Lake region of east China for tracing the flood process and evaluating the loss of flood damage timely.
Strategy or disaster. Flood prevention related issues and actions in the Tisza River basin
Flood ; Flood control ; Fluvial deposit ; Hungary
Changes in land use of the lowland landscape along the Tisza River have largely been shaped by processes that took place after flood control and regulation measures of that river. As a result fluvial accumulation has either been eliminated
or restricted to the flood plain. At present human settlements extend to some segments of the low flood plain threatened by flood hazard. The amended Vásárhelyi Scheme focuses on raising embankments and extension of flood plain. Floods called the attention
to problems that have to be solved, such as the stability of levee slopes. To prevent slope slumps it would be reasonable to start studies on flood control embankments in order to reveal sections endangered by an extreme water pressure during floods. - (AM)
Is flooding in South Asia getting worse and more frequent?
Asia ; Climate ; Discharge ; Flood ; Hydrology ; Inundation ; Monsoon ; Precipitation ; River ; Southern Asia ; Tropical cyclone
To answer the question whether flooding in South Asia is getting worse and more frequent, all available data were considered: the annual peak discharge data for major rivers, post-1985 information on floods from the global archive of large floods
and palaeoflood records from nine Indian rivers. Although there is no significant trend, all types of data point to clustering of large floods. Palaeoflood records show that modern floods (post-1950) have higher flood levels than the late Holocene floods
. Notwithstanding the limitations of data, there is enough evidence to conclude that (1) incidences of flood-generating extreme rainfall event are rising and (2) human interventions have made the recent floods more destructive.
The Cork City flood of November 2009 : lessons for flood risk management and climate change adaptation at the urban scale
Adaptation ; Climatic change ; Cork ; Flood ; Flood control ; Hydraulic works ; Ireland ; Northern Ireland ; Risk management ; Urban area ; Vulnerability
Drawing on the example of Cork City and the November 2009 flood in particular, this paper evaluates contemporary policy and decision-making responses to flood hazards to determine whether they are sufficient to address current and future flood risks
and vulnerabilities. This framing of flood hazards is shaped by several influences including the historic evolution of flood policy and current institutional structures. The November 2009 flood highlights the limits of current policy and practice.
Hydrosynoptic approaches for identification of flood mechanism
Catastrophe ; Czech Republic ; Elbe ; Flood ; Flood control ; Water circulation ; Watershed
Problems related to application of hydrosynoptic approaches for flood protection in Czech Republic. Presented examples are based on data from sub-basins of the Czech Elbe River. The physical-geographic variability of Elbe-basins is a reason
for their varying sensibility to different types of circulation pattern, that are able to generate the flood. - (MS)
Climatic change ; Flood ; Forecast ; Model ; Mozambique ; Statistics ; Tropical cyclone ; Twentieth Century
In February 2000, southern Mozambique experienced severe floods related to the passage of two tropical cyclones. An analysis is conducted of the historical context, structure and prediction of flooding during the summer season. A statistical model
is developed to enable the prediction of flood risk many months in advance. - (AJC)
Long-term impacts of the 1997 floods in the Morava River Basin
Czech Republic ; Flood ; Impact study ; Natural hazards
In 1997, disastrous floods have been carried out of the Morava River and other Moravian rivers. The long-term impacts of the flood event on the landscape and population have been examined. The main causes of the flood damage are connected
with the formulation of the settlement pattern during industrialization and urbanization. The main geographical methods of flood protection include the relocation of outside inundated areas, technical controle and the adaptation to flood risks too. - (MS)
Geomorphological features of Northwestern Bangladesh and some problems on flood mitigation : International Symposium on flood disaster reduction in South-East Asia
The northwest region of Bangladesh is divided into 4 geomorphological units which show different flood features. The region has suffered severe flood damage both in 1987 and in 1988. After these floods Bangladesh Action Plan for Flood Control
Thresholds and the spatial variability of flood power during extreme floods
Catastrophe ; Channel geometry ; Flood ; Floodplain ; Fluvial hydrology ; Illinois ; United States ; Wisconsin
This paper analyzes the variation in flood power both at-a-station and downstream in a basin of differing lithologies, and discusses the geologic and geomorphic controls on flood power. Floodplain width influences these local and general controls
, and will directly and indirectly control flood power within the drainage network through its control on the rates of change of several hydraulic variables during discharge increases.
Flood-frequency analysis for the Santa Ynez River and adjacent region, California
California ; Dam ; Flood ; Fluvial hydrology ; Hydraulic works ; Statistics ; Stream ; United States of America
A regional flood-frequency curve is presented for the Santa Ynez River and adjacent areas in southern California. This curve was developed to improve estimates of return periods for very extreme floods on the Santa Ynez River and to evaluate
the likelihood that Bradbury Dam, with its present spillway capacity of 4500cms, would be overstopped. The flood-frequency curve was fit using an index flood method and the assumption that floods in this region follow the log-Pearson Type III distribution.
A comparison of modeled flood characteristics to measurements of the 2002 flood on the Guadalupe River, Texas
The central Texas flood of 2002
Comparative study ; Flood ; Forecast ; Model ; Pic discharge ; Stream ; Texas ; United States of America
This paper compares a model and an empirical calculation for calculating flood probabilities and associated peak discharges for the upper Guadalupe watershed. Assuming an increase from tributaries into Canyon Lake, the estimate of peak discharge
obtained from USGS data much more closely matches the recorded flow than the results from the National Flood Frequency program.
A Korosok arvizeinek néhany hidrologiai sajatossagai és az 1980. évi arviz. (Hydrology of floods on the Koros rivers with a special regard to events of the flood in 1980)
The author gives an overview of floods and flood control measures on the Koros rivers, East-Hungary. The study is concerned with the laws of occurrence, monthly and annual distribution of floods, the sudden fluctuations in water regime, the mean
and peak discharges of rivers and the duration of floods on various stretches.
Flood perception and mitigation : the role of severity, agency, and experience in the purchase of flood protection, and the communication of flood information
Empowerment ; Flood ; Flood control ; Information ; Management ; Risk perception ; United Kingdom
Protection of human life and property from flooding is a strategic priority in the U.K. The AA. examine how to encourage home owners to protect themselves and their residences. A model of factors that influence the decision to buy flood-protection
devices is tested using survey data from 2109 home owners. The second part examines responsiveness to information. Information about flooding alone was insufficient to promote behavioural change.
During a palaeoflood study of the Llobregat River in Catalonia, analysis of Cs 137 was carried out on slackwater flood deposits to obtain an improved flood chronology for the most recent flood sediments. The onset of measured caesium activity
in the sedimentary profiles permitted the deposits to be divided between those from floods that occurred before the mid-1950s and those from events after this period. Combining the information derived from the slackwater flood stratigraphy, the minimum discharge
estimates associated with the flood deposits, Cs 137 analysis and the instrumental peak discharge series, it was possible to identify the particular flood events responsible for the majority of the slackwater flood units.