Flood Handbook

Dr. Saeid Eslamian is professor of Hydrology at Isfahan University of Technology, where he heads the Hydrology Research Group in the Department of Water Engineering. His research focuses mainly on statistical and environmental hydrology and climate change. In particular, he is working on modeling and prediction of natural hazards including flood, drought, storms, wind, groundwater drawdown, and pollution for arid and semi-arid zones, particularly in urban areas. He is also a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and University of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He has contributed to more than 300 publications in books, research journals, and technical reports or papers in conferences. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of both the International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology and the Journal of Flood Engineering. He received ASCE and EWRI awards in 2009 and 2010 for his research. Faezeh Eslamian is a PhD candidate of bioresource engineering and research assistant at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is currently working on the fate and transport of phosphorus through subsurface drained farmlands. Dr. Eslamian completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, where she evaluated natural and low-cost absorbents for the removal of pollutants such as textile dyes and heavy metals. Furthermore, she has conducted research on the worldwide water quality standards, wastewater reuse, and drought guidelines.

Part I: An Introduction to Flooding and Human






Floods and People-Colin Green
Part II: Food Observation and Modeling Uncertainty






Importance of Hydrological and Meteorological Measurements and Observation



Flood Observation Uncertainty-Jean-François Vuillaume



Flood Modeling and Forecasting Uncertainty-Jean-François Vuillaume
Part III: Flood Modeling and Forecasting




Empirical Modelling in Design Flood Estimation-Akshay Rajan Thorvat



Flood Forecasting Time Series or Flood Frequency Analysis-Priyanka Sharma



Stable Channel Design of Tapi River Using Hec-Ras For Surat Region-Darshan J. Mehta



Hydro-Morpho Dynamics of River Junctions Characteristics and Advanced Modeling-Hydar Lafta Ali



Shallow Water Flow Modelling-Franziska Tügel


Part IV: Flood, River Restoration and Climate Change




Modelling Approach in Forecasting Changes Caused By In-Stream River Restoration Structures-Tomasz Kaluzal



Impact of Climate Change on Flooding-Conrad Wasko



Sea Level Rise Due to Climate Change- Brij Bhushan
Part V: Flood Optimization and Simulation




Real-time Operation of Reservoirs during Flood Conditions using Optimization/Simulation-Larry Mays



Application of Physically-Based Distributed Flood Models Towards Large-Scale Flood Simulations-S. Saksena



Continuous Large-scale Simulation Models in Flood Studies-Rouzbeh Nazari
Part VI: Flood Softwares




Riverine and Flood Modeling Softwares-Mustafa Goodarzi



Flood Modelling Using Open Source Software-Thomas J Scanlon



Iterative Floodway Modelling Using HEC-RAS and GIS- Majid Galoie



Flood Plain Mapping using HRC-RAS and ArcGIS-Mehdi Vafakhah



Geospatial Techniques, Flood Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk Mapping in GIS GAP-Ali Akbar Jamali
Part VII: Flood Regionalization




Determining the High Flood Risk Regions Using a Rainfall-Runoff Modeling- Iftekhar Ahmed



Geostatistics and Flooding-Homogeneous Regions Delineation for Multivariate Regional FA-E. Gargouri



Application of L moments Based Index Flood Approach: A Case Study for NSW, Ayesha Rahman



NASA Near-Real-Time Global Precipitation Products for Flood Modeling, Assessment, and Research- Zhong Liu
Part VIII: Flood Softcomputing




Real time Flood Hydrograph Predictions using Soft Computing and Rating Curve Methods- Gokmen Tayfur



Application of Integral Transforms in Hydrology-Vahid Nourani



Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis For Flood Risk Assessment-Daniel Jato-Espino