Front 
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Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, 
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Copyright 5
Contents 6
Contributors 10
Editorial 
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Foreword 16
Section 1 Floods and Storms 18
Chapter 1 - Flood Processes and Hazards 20
1.1 INTRODUCTION 20
1.2 FLOOD TYPES AND THEIR PROCESSES 21
1.3 FLOOD HAZARD PROBABILITIES 36
1.4 FLOODS IN A CHANGING WORLD 39
REFERENCES 44
Chapter 2 - Measuring and Mapping Flood Processes 52
2.1 INTRODUCTION 52
2.2 FLOODPLAIN TOPOGRAPHY 54
2.3 WATER AREA AND EXTENT MONITORING 58
2.4 MONITORING RIVER HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS 61
2.5 HYDRAULIC MODELS 68
2.6 INTEGRATION OF HYDRAULIC MODELS AND REMOTE SENSING DATA 73
2.7 CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK 76
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 77
REFERENCES 77
Chapter 3 - Palaeoflood Hydrology: Reconstructing Rare Events and Extreme Flood Discharges 82
3.1 INTRODUCTION 82
3.2 PALAEOFLOOD APPROACHES AND METHODOLOGY 84
3.3 GEOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL PALAEOFLOOD DATA 87
3.4 DATING PALAEOFLOOD EVIDENCE 95
3.5 PALAEOFLOOD DISCHARGE ESTIMATION 98
3.6 FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS USING PALAEOFLOOD DATA 100
3.7 ESTIMATION OF PALAEOFLOOD VOLUME 101
3.8 APPLIED PALAEOFLOOD HYDROLOGY 102
3.9 CONCLUSIONS 108
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 109
REFERENCES 109
Chapter 4 - Global and Low-Cost Topographic Data to Support Flood Studies 122
4.1 INTRODUCTION 122
4.2 TEST SITE AND DATA AVAILABILITY 126
4.3 INUNDATION MODELING 128
4.4 THE EFFECT OF TOPOGRAPHY RESOLUTION ON INUNDATION MODELING 129
4.5 UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS WITHIN A GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION FRAMEWORK 130
4.6 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 131
4.7 CONCLUSIONS 136
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 137
REFERENCES 137
Chapter 5 - Vulnerability and Exposure in Developed and Developing Countries: Large-Scale Assessments 142
5.1 INTRODUCTION 142
5.2 VULNERABILITY: DEFINITIONS AND COMPLEXITY 144
5.3 APPROACHES TO VULNERABILITY 149
5.4 METHODOLOGY 156
5.5 COPING WITH FLOOD VULNERABILITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 159
5.6 COPING WITH FLOOD VULNERABILITY IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES 165
5.7 DISCUSSIONS AND PERSPECTIVES 170
ANNEX 1. PO'S DELTA COMMUNES ABBREVIATIONS 172
ANNEX 2. AWARENESS AND PREPAREDNESS INDICATOR SCALED 175
REFERENCES 176
Chapter 6 - Integrated Risk Assessment of Water-Related Disasters 180
6.1 INTRODUCTION AND STATE-OF-THE-ART OF RISK ASSESSMENT METHODS OF WATER-RELATED PROCESSES 181
6.2 METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR INTEGRATED RISK ASSESSMENT 184
6.3 THE EVALUATION OF BENEFITS OF RISK REDUCTION 191
6.4 THE SOCIAL DIMENSION: ADAPTIVE AND COPING CAPACITIES FOR RISK PREVENTION 192
6.5 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE KR-FWK 193
6.6 A DEMONSTRATION OF SERRA APPLIED TO FLOOD RISK IN THE CITY OF DHAKA 199
6.7 FINAL REMARKS 213
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 214
REFERENCES 214
Chapter 7 - KULTURisk Methodology Application: Ubaye Valley (Barcelonnette, France) 218
7.1 INTRODUCTION 218
7.2 METHODOLOGY 220
7.3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 222
7.4 CONCLUSION 225
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 227
REFERENCES 227
Chapter 8 - Floods and Storms Practical Exercises 230
8.1 INTRODUCTION TO FLOOD MODELING 230
8.2 EXERCISE 1: NUMERICAL FLOOD MODELING IN LISFLOOD-FP 234
8.3 FURTHER EXERCISES 242
8.4 APPENDIX: GOVERNING EQUATIONS FOR LISFLOOD-FP SOLVERS 242
REFERENCES 246
Section 2 Wind, Heat Waves, and Droughts 248
Chapter 9 - Drought Monitoring and Assessment: Remote Sensing and Modeling Approaches for the Famine Early Warning Systems ... 250
9.1 INTRODUCTION 251
9.2 RAINFALL-BASED DROUGHT MONITORING 254
9.3 VEGETATION INDEX-BASED DROUGHT MONITORING 261
9.4 MODEL-DRIVEN DROUGHT INDICATORS 264
9.5 HAZARD OUTLOOK (SHORT-TERM DROUGHT BULLETIN) 271
9.6 VALIDATION OF DROUGHT INDICATORS 273
9.7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 273
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 276
REFERENCES 276
Chapter 10 - Hydrological Modeling for Drought Assessment 280
10.1 INTRODUCTION 280
10.2 DROUGHTS AS A NATURAL HAZARD WORLDWIDE 281
10.3 CHARACTERIZATION OF DROUGHTS: DROUGHT INDICES 282
10.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF HYDROLOGICAL MODELS FOR DROUGHT ASSESSMENT 288
10.5 CASE STUDY: HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHT ASSESSMENT FOR THE LIMPOPO BASIN 289
10.6 CONCLUSIONS 297
REFERENCES 297
Index 300