Flood Forecasting
A Global Perspective
Description
Key Features
- Covers global systems allowing readers to see a worldwide perspective with different approaches used by existing flood forecast systems
- Provides historical coverage allowing readers to understand why forecast systems have developed as they have and to see how specific systems have dealt with common problems encountered
- Presents a vision of what appears to be the future of hydrologic forecasting and difficulties facing hydrologic forecasting
- Provides a helpful resource to facilitate improvements to existing systems based on a best practices approach
Readership
Primary: meteorologists, Hydrometeorologists, watershed scientists, hydrologists, natural resource/water managers. Secondary: Environmental Engineers; coastal engineers.
Table of Contents
Introduction
(1) National and Regional Flood Forecasting Systems
Flood Forecasting at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)
Hydrological Forecasting Practices in Brazil (Brazil)
The development and recent advances of flood forecasting activities in China (Peoples Republic of China)
A Diagnostic Analysis of Flood Forecasting Systems for the Congo River Basin (Congo)
Flood forecasting in Germany – Challenges of a federal structure and transboundary cooperation (Germany)
Flood Forecasting in India (India) — D.P. Mathuria and Pramod Narayan
Romania National Flood Forecasting and Warning System (Romania)
Operational hydrological forecast systems in Russia (Russia)
Flood Forecasting Tool and Early Warning System using Satellite-based Rainfall Estimates and HEC Tools (Sudan)
Flood Forecast — Britain (United Kingdom)
Flood Forecasting in the United States NOAA/National Weather Service (United States)
(2) Continental Modeling and Monitoring —the future?
Global flood calculations in real-time
European Flood Awareness System (EFAS)
Flood Forecasting in the Blue Nile basin in Sudan (Africa)
Developing Flood Forecasting Capabilities in Columbia (South America)
(3) Challenges facing flood forecasting
River gauging issues in the U.S. and internationally
Implementation of flood forecasting systems in developing countries
(4) Forecast dissemination issues
Exploring How the Question Influences the Decision that is Made on the Basis of Ensemble Flood Forecasts
Flood Forecasting Needs In a Changing World
Product details
About the Editors
Thomas Adams
Visiting Scientist, NOAA/NWS National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Thomas E. Adams, III, has twenty years of real-time operational hydrologic forecasting experience at the NOAA/National Weather Service (NWS), Ohio River Forecast Center (OHRFC), including model parameter estimation, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling and model calibration. His experience includes development and implementation of the Ohio River Community HEC-RAS Model, operational probabilistic/ensemble hydrologic forecasting, precipitation estimation and analysis, land surface/atmosphere interaction, and impact of global climate change on water resources.
He is currently involved with Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) software development and testing for the NWS and served as flash flood forecasting expert in Beijing, China. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Soil Science Society of America.