Beschreibung
Global Flood Hazard Subject Category Winner, PROSE Awards 2019, Earth Science Selected from more than 500 entries, demonstrating exceptional scholarship and making a significant contribution to the field of study. PROSE Award Finalist 2019 Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence Flooding is a costly natural disaster in terms of damage to land, property and infrastructure. This volume describes the latest tools and technologies for modeling, mapping, and predicting large-scale flood risk. It also presents readers with a range of remote sensing data sets successfully used for predicting and mapping floods at different scales. These resources can enable policymakers, public planners, and developers to plan for, and respond to, flooding with greater accuracy and effectiveness. * Describes the latest large-scale modeling approaches, including hydrological models, 2-D flood inundation models, and global flood forecasting models * Showcases new tools and technologies such as Aqueduct, a new web-based tool used for global assessment and projection of future flood risk under climate change scenarios * Features case studies describing best-practice uses of modeling techniques, tools, and technologies Global Flood Hazard is an indispensable resource for researchers, consultants, practitioners, and policy makers dealing with flood risk, flood disaster response, flood management, and flood mitigation.
Autorenportrait
Guy Schumann, PhD is Associate Researcher at the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE), University of California Los Angeles. His current projects concern JPL, NASA and Google Inc. Paul D. Bates, PhD is Professor and head of Hydrology, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK. Giuseppe Tito Aronica, PhD is a Professor at the University of Messina, Civil Engineering, Messina, Italy. Heiko Apel, PhD is with the Department of Hydrology, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany.
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