H33M:
Global Floods: Forecasting, Monitoring, Risk Assessment, and Socioeconomic Response I

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Huan Wu, ESSIC/NASA GSFC, College Park, MD, United States, Tara Troy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States, Robert Brakenridge, University of Colorado, CSDMS, Boulder, CO, United States and Philip Ward, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Conveners:  Huan Wu, ESSIC/NASA GSFC, College Park, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Tara Troy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States, Robert Brakenridge, University of Colorado, CSDMS, Boulder, CO, United States and Philip Ward, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
OSPA Liaisons:  Tara Troy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
H33M-01
 
LiDAR and IFSAR-Based Flood Inundation Model Estimates for Flood-Prone Areas of Afghanistan
William C Johnson1, Meliissa M Goldade1, Jude Kastens2, Kevin E. Dobbs2 and G L Macpherson1, (1)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States
1:55 PM
H33M-02
 
The Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) – Overview of Recent Developments
Feyera A Hirpa1, Zuzanna Zajac1, Beatriz Revilla-Romero1, Victor Ntegeka1, Peter Salamon1, Jutta Thielen1, Peter Burek2, Milan Kalas1, Lorenzo Alfieri1 and Hylke Beck2, (1)Joint Research Center Ispra, Climate Risk Management Unit, Ispra, Italy, (2)Joint Research Center Ispra, Water Resources Unit, Ispra, Italy
2:10 PM
H33M-03
 
Validation of a Global Hydrodynamic Flood Inundation Model
Paul D Bates1, Andrew Smith1, Christopher Charles Sampson1, Lorenzo Alfieri2 and Jeffrey C Neal1, (1)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (2)EU Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
2:25 PM
H33M-04
 
A new approach for improving flood model predictions based on the sequential assimilation of SAR-derived flood extent maps
Renaud Hostache, Giovanni Corato, Marco Chini, Melissa Wood, Laura Giustarini and Patrick Matgen, CRP Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg
2:40 PM
H33M-05
 
Latest updates in global flood modelling: channel bifurcation and global river width database
Dai Yamazaki1, Shinjiro Kanae2, Yukiko Hirabayashi3, Fiachra O'Loughlin4, Mark Trigg5 and Paul D Bates4, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (3)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (4)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (5)University of Bristol, School of Geography, Bristol, United Kingdom
2:55 PM
H33M-06
 
Development of an Operational Hydrological Monitoring and Seasonal Forecast System for China
Qiuhong Tang and Xuejun Zhang, IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China
3:10 PM
H33M-07
 
Assessing short to medium range ensemble streamflow forecast approaches in small to medium scale watersheds across CONUS
Andrew W Wood1, Andrew James Newman1, Levi D Brekke2, J R Arnold3 and Martyn P Clark4, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, United States, (3)US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, FL, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
3:25 PM
H33M-08
 
Can atmospheric reanalysis datasets be used to reproduce flood characteristics?
Konstantinos Andreadis1, Guy Schumann2 and Dimitrios Stampoulis1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
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