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Ali Aldrees, Abdulrasheed Mohammed, Salisu Dan?azumi and Sani Isah Abba
Flooding is a major environmental problem facing urban cities, causing varying degrees of damage to properties and disruption to socio-economic activities. Nigeria is the most populous African country and Kano metropolis is the second largest urban cente...
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Christos Makris, Zisis Mallios, Yannis Androulidakis and Yannis Krestenitis
Storm surges due to severe weather events threaten low-land littoral areas by increasing the risk of seawater inundation of coastal floodplains. In this paper, we present recent developments of a numerical modelling system for coastal inundation induced ...
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Erik Kralj, Peter Kumer and Cécil J. W. Meulenberg
The escalating frequency and severity of climate-related hazards in the Mediterranean, particularly in the historic town of Piran, Slovenia, underscore the critical need for enhanced coastal flood prediction and efficient early warning systems. This stud...
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Lynn Donelson Wright and Bruce Graham Thom
The shape of the coast and the processes that mold it change together as a complex system. There is constant feedback among the multiple components of the system, and when climate changes, all facets of the system change. Abrupt shifts to different state...
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Kaveh Ghahraman, Balázs Nagy and Fatemeh Nooshin Nokhandan
We utilized the random forest (RF) machine learning algorithm, along with nine topographical/morphological factors, namely aspect, slope, geomorphons, plan curvature, profile curvature, terrain roughness index, surface texture, topographic wetness index ...
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Kevin J. Wienhold, Dongfeng Li, Wenzhao Li and Zheng N. Fang
The identification of flood hazards during emerging public safety crises such as hurricanes or flash floods is an invaluable tool for first responders and managers yet remains out of reach in any comprehensive sense when using traditional remote-sensing ...
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Hengzhi Hu, Hanwei Yang, Jiahong Wen, Min Zhang and Yanjuan Wu
Under climate warming, the frequency and intensity of extreme rainstorms-induced urban pluvial floods are significantly increasing, leading to severe flooding risks in megacities. An integrated model that incorporates rainfall processing, waterlogging si...
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Xiaolin Sun, Ke Jin, Hui Tao, Zheng Duan and Chao Gao
Under global warming, flooding has become one of the most destructive natural disasters along the China?Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which significantly jeopardizes the construction and ongoing stability of the CPEC. The assessment of regional floo...
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Andrea Maranzoni and Massimo Tomirotti
Numerical modelling is a valuable and effective tool for predicting the dynamics of the inundation caused by the failure of a dam or dyke, thereby assisting in mapping the areas potentially subject to flooding and evaluating the associated flood hazard. ...
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Thibault Laigre, Yann Balouin, Deborah Villarroel-Lamb, Alexandre Nicolae Lerma, Nico Valentini, Manuel Moisan and Ywenn De La Torre
Increasing evidence suggests that coastal ecosystems provide significant protection against coastal flooding. However, these ecosystems are highly impacted by local human activities and climate change, which has resulted in reducing their extent and can ...
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