H13O:
Global Floods: Forecasting, Monitoring, Risk Assessment, and Socioeconomic Response II

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Session ID#: 34402

Session Description:
The increase in the frequency of flood events due to acceleration of the global water cycle induces more risks to human settlements, especially those on floodplains, in an era of rapid population growth. Monitoring and forecasting of the occurrence, intensity, and evolution of flood events have been critical for many humanitarian and government agencies in their efforts to prepare, mitigate, and manage responses to disaster to save lives and limit damage. Risk assessments prior to events are also vital for developing short-term and long-term management plans.

We hope this session could also aim to contribute to the aims of the Global Flood Partnership (GFP), i.e. to foster global flood forecasting, monitoring and impact assessment to strengthen preparedness and response and to reduce global flood disaster losses. We solicit contributions from modeling and remote sensing, socioeconomic sciences, hazard response, and preparedness fields that study flood hazards and risks across spatial scales.

Primary Convener:  Huan Wu, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Zhuhai, China
Conveners:  Dennis P Lettenmaier, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Philip Ward, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam, Netherlands and Donglian Sun, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Chairs:  Dennis P Lettenmaier, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Huan Wu, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Zhuhai, China, Philip Ward, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam, Netherlands and Donglian Sun, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Huan Wu, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Zhuhai, China

Cross-Listed:
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1820 Floodplain dynamics [HYDROLOGY]
1821 Floods [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
4331 Disaster relief [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Opportunities and Limitations to Explore Human Response to Floods Through Satellite Data (234999)
Johanna Mård and Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS), Uppsala, Sweden
Estimates of Present and Future Flood Risk in the Conterminous United States (211855)
Oliver Wing1,2, Paul D Bates3,4, Andrew Smith2,3, Christopher Charles Sampson2,3, Kris Johnson5, Joseph Fargione6 and Philip Morefield7, (1)University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (2)SSBN Ltd, Bristol, United Kingdom, (3)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (4)University of Bristol, School Of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (5)The Nature Conservancy, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (6)The Nature Conservancy, Minneapolis, United States, (7)Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, United States
Influence of ENSO on coastal flood hazard and exposure at the global-scale (252499)
Sanne Muis1, Ivan David Haigh2, Gabriela Guimarães Nobre1, Jeroen Aerts1 and Philip Ward1, (1)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
A Global Geospatial Database of 5000+ Historic Flood Event Extents (263559)
Beth Tellman, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, AZ, United States, Jonathan Sullivan, Cloud to Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Colin Doyle, Cloud to Street, New York, United States, Prof. Albert Kettner, University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, G Robert Brakenridge, CSDMS Facility, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Tyler Erickson, Google, Earth Outreach, Mountain View, United States and Daniel A Slayback, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
The CAnadian Surface Prediction ARchive (CaSPAr): A Platform to Enhance Environmental Modelling in Canada and Globally (256481)
Bryan Tolson1, Juliane Mai1, Kurt Christopher Kornelsen2, Paulin DL Coulibaly3, Francois Anctil4, Vincent Fortin5, Michael Leahy6 and Brent Hall6, (1)University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (3)McMaster University, Department of Civil Engineering, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (4)Laval University, Civil and Water Engineering, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (5)Hydro-Québec, Montreal, Canada, (6)Esri Canada, Center of Excellence, Education & Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
Contribution of rivers and floodplains to the global terrestrial water storage variability (254414)
Augusto Getirana, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sujay V Kumar, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Manuela Girotto, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States and Matthew Rodell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
A Strategy for a Parametric Flood Insurance Using Proxies (300002)
Masahiko Haraguchi, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States

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