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1. Full Text Floods
2016
Flash floods | Floods | Disaster planning | Environmental degradation
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2. Full Text flood
2014, ISBN 9781446247112
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3. Full Text The "Prediflood" database of historical floods in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula) AD 1035-2013, and its potential applications in flood analysis
by Barriendos, M and Ruiz-Bellet, JL and Tuset, J and Mazon, J and Balasch, JC and Pino, D and Ayala, JL
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, ISSN 1027-5606, 2014, Volume 18, Issue 12, pp. 4807 - 4823
"Prediflood" is a database of historical floods that occurred in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula), between the 11th century and the 21st century. More than... 
EUROPE | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | EVENTS | FLASH FLOODS | RECONSTRUCTION | WATER RESOURCES | MODEL | DOCUMENTARY | RIVERS | SPAIN | Floods | Databases | Fluid dynamics | Fluid flow | Historic | Criteria | Peninsulas | Multidisciplinary | Models matemàtics | Geologia | Enginyeria civil | Computer simulation | Inundacions | Hidrologia | Mathematical models | Àrees temàtiques de la UPC
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4. Full Text Characterisation of selected extreme flash floods in Europe and implications for flood risk management
by Marchi, L and Borga, M and Preciso, E and Gaume, E
Journal of Hydrology, ISSN 0022-1694, 11/2010, Volume 394, Issue 1-2, pp. 118 - 133
High-resolution data enabling identification and analysis of the hydrometeorological causative processes of flash floods have been collected and analysed for... 
Climatic regions | Lag time | Flash flood | Runoff coefficient | Antecedent soil moisture | Flood risk management | UNITED-STATES | CENTRAL APPALACHIANS | STORM RESPONSE | SEPTEMBER 2002 | UNGAUGED BASINS | WATER RESOURCES | EASTERN ITALIAN ALPS | FRANCE | EVENT | VARIABILITY | ENGINEERING, CIVIL | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | RAINFALL | Risk management | Soil moisture | Runoff | Rain and rainfall | Watersheds | Mathematical models | Floods | Density | Flash flooding | Streams | Hydrology | Earth Sciences | Sciences of the Universe | Meteorology | Environmental Sciences | Global Changes
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5. Full Text Floods
by Michon, Heather
2008, Volume 2, 4
Climate change | Flash floods | Ecosystems | Storm surges | Sea level | Floods
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6. Full Text Improving Flash Flood Forecasts
: The HMT-WPC Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiment
by Faye E. Barthold and Thomas E. Workoff and Brian A. Cosgrove and Jonathan J. Gourley and David R. Novak and Kelly M. Mahoney
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, ISSN 0003-0007, 11/2015, Volume 96, Issue 11, pp. 1859 - 1866
Despite advancements in numerical modeling and the increasing prevalence of convection-allowing guidance, flash flood forecasting remains a substantial... 
Hydrology | Rain | Flash floods | Hydrological modeling | Weather forecasting | Probability forecasts | IN BOX INSIGHTS and INNOVATIONS | Floods | Analytical forecasting | Forecasting models | Meteorology | METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | MODEL | GUIDANCE | Technology application | Methods | Flood forecasting | Long-range weather forecasting | Storms | Rain and rainfall | Precipitation | Neighborhoods | Laboratories | Research | Experiments
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7. Full Text A compilation of data on European flash floods
by Gaume, Eric and Bain, Valerie and Bernardara, Pietro and Newinger, Olivier and Barbuc, Mihai and Bateman, Allen and Blaškovičová, Lotta and Blöschl, Günter and Borga, Marco and Dumitrescu, Alexandru and Daliakopoulos, Ioannis and Garcia, Joachim and Irimescu, Anisoara and Kohnova, Silvia and Koutroulis, Aristeidis and Marchi, Lorenzo and Matreata, Simona and Medina, Vicente and Preciso, Emanuele and Sempere-Torres, Daniel and Stancalie, Gheorghe and Szolgay, Jan and Tsanis, Ioannis and Velasco, David and Viglione, Alberto
Journal of Hydrology, ISSN 0022-1694, 2009, Volume 367, Issue 1, pp. 70 - 78
Flash floods are one of the most significant natural hazards in Europe, causing serious risk to life and destruction of buildings and infrastructure. This type... 
Database | Atlas | Extremes | Flash flood | Floods | Regional analysis | UNITED-STATES | ENGINEERING, CIVIL | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | WATER RESOURCES | FRANCE | Geography | Water | Hydrology | Analysis | Aquatic resources | Information management | Research | Management | Sediment transport | Earth Sciences | Sciences of the Universe | Environmental Sciences | Global Changes
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8. Full Text Integrated rainfall–runoff and flood inundation modeling for flash flood risk assessment under data scarcity in arid regions: Wadi Fatimah basin case study, Saudi Arabia
by Elfeki, Amro and Masoud, Milad and Niyazi, Burhan
Natural Hazards, ISSN 0921-030X, 1/2017, Volume 85, Issue 1, pp. 87 - 109
This paper presents a proposed integrated approach for flood hazardous evaluation in arid and semi-arid areas. Wadi Fatimah in Saudi Arabia is utilized for... 
Earth Sciences | Statistical analysis | Flash flood | Natural Hazards | Inundation modeling | Civil Engineering | Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences | Data scarcity | Geophysics/Geodesy | Rainfall–runoff modeling | Wadi Fatimah | Hydrogeology | Reservoir routing | Protection dams | Environmental Management | Elevation–capacity curve | Rainfall-runoff modeling | HAZARD | WATER RESOURCES | GIS | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | Elevation-capacity curve | METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | INDIA | Case studies | Weather | Water | Hydrology | Arid regions | Runoff | Risk assessment | Reservoirs | Models | Aquatic resources | Management | Rain and rainfall | Rain | Floods | Geomorphology | Wadis | Rainfall | Estimates | Inundation
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9. Full Text Flood hazard assessment for extreme flood events
by Kvočka, Davor and Falconer, Roger A and Bray, Michaela
Natural Hazards, ISSN 0921-030X, 12/2016, Volume 84, Issue 3, pp. 1569 - 1599
Climate change is expected to result in an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. In turn, this will result in more frequent... 
Earth Sciences | Flood hazard | Natural Hazards | Civil Engineering | Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences | Geophysics/Geodesy | Large floods | Extreme floods | DIVAST-TVD | Hydrogeology | Flash floods | Flood risk | Environmental Management | FLASH-FLOOD | RIVER FLOODS | STABILITY | SLOVENIA | CLIMATE-CHANGE | RISK | VULNERABILITY | WATER RESOURCES | MODEL | DAM | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | TVD-MACCORMACK | METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | Global temperature changes | Floods | Extreme weather | Analysis | Climate change | Hazards | Flood damage | Rivers | Assessments | Flooding | Hazard assessment | Flash flooding | Extreme values
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10. Full Text Atmospheric driving mechanisms of flash floods in Portugal
by Santos, Mónica and Santos, João A and Fragoso, Marcelo
International Journal of Climatology, ISSN 0899-8418, 08/2017, Volume 37, Issue S1, pp. 671 - 680
The present study aims to investigate how large‐scale atmospheric circulation may influence flash floods in Portugal. For this purpose, weather types ( WTs )... 
weather types | Portugal | flash floods | hydrographic basins | HOMOGENEITY | CIRCULATION PATTERNS | EXTREME RAINFALL | EUROPE | PRECIPITATION | HYDRO-GEOMORPHOLOGIC DISASTERS | FREQUENCY | METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | ASSOCIATION | NORTHERN PORTUGAL | Weather | Floods | Atmospheric circulation | Weather types | Climatology | Temperature | Methodology | Ocean basins | Troughs | Rainfall | Sea level pressure | Identification | Sea level | Low pressure systems | Pressure | Discharge | Sea level pressures | Precipitation | Hydrologic data | Flash floods | Algorithms | Basins | Low pressure | Detection | Circulation
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11. Full Text Characterization of floods in the United States
by Saharia, Manabendra and Kirstetter, Pierre-Emmanuel and Vergara, Humberto and Gourley, Jonathan J and Hong, Yang
Journal of Hydrology, ISSN 0022-1694, 05/2017, Volume 548, pp. 524 - 535
Floods have gained increasing global significance in the recent past due to their devastating nature and potential for causing significant economic and human... 
Unit peak discharge | Geomorphology | Flooding rise time | Flood characterization | ENGINEERING, CIVIL | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | FLASH FLOODS | WATER RESOURCES | RAINFALL | TRENDS | Floods | Analysis | Weather | Case studies | Deserts | Rain and rainfall
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12. Full Text A high resolution coupled hydrologic–hydraulic model (HiResFlood-UCI) for flash flood modeling
by Nguyen, Phu and Thorstensen, Andrea and Sorooshian, Soroosh and Hsu, Kuolin and AghaKouchak, Amir and Sanders, Brett and Koren, Victor and Cui, Zhengtao and Smith, Michael
Journal of Hydrology, ISSN 0022-1694, 10/2016, Volume 541, pp. 401 - 420
HiResFlood-UCI was developed by coupling the NWS’s hydrologic model (HL-RDHM) with the hydraulic model (BreZo) for flash flood modeling at decameter... 
HL-RDHM | Distributed model | HiResFlood-UCI | Flash flood | BreZo | Coupled hydrologic–hydraulic model | DESIGN | PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION | WATER RESOURCES | MOTIVATION | DMIP | INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT | ENGINEERING, CIVIL | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | Coupled hydrologic-hydraulic model | Hydrology | Models | Floods | Analysis | Runoff | Rain and rainfall | Streamflow | River channels | Finite element method | Parameters | Flood predictions | Mathematical models | Calibration | Flash flooding | Hydrology models
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13. Full Text Flood risk and its reduction in China
by Kundzewicz, ZW and Su, Buda and Wang, Yanjun and Xia, Jun and Huang, Jinlong and Jiang, Tong
Advances in Water Resources, ISSN 0309-1708, 08/2019, Volume 130, pp. 37 - 45
Despite massive flood protection efforts in China, undertaken since the ancient times, disastrous floods continue to plague the country. In this paper, we... 
Flood risk reduction | Flood hazard | Flood defenses | Flood risk | Non-structural measures | ENSO | PRECIPITATION EXTREMES | VULNERABILITY | WATER RESOURCES | EASTERN CHINA | YANGTZE-RIVER BASIN | TRENDS | ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON | GLOBAL PROJECTIONS | RAINFALL | CLIMATE | Water | Weather | Information science | Dikes (Engineering) | Global temperature changes | Watershed management | Aquatic resources | Management | Flood forecasting | Adaptations | Stream flow | Water management | Flood control | Warning systems | Flood hazards | Change detection | Floods | Flood damage | Risks | River flow | Precipitation | Reduction | Flash floods | River discharge | Flood management | Emergency preparedness | Damage | Water resources | Flood protection | Water resources management | Urban areas | Watersheds | Risk reduction | Hazards | Climatic changes | Rivers | Flooding | Environmental risk | Environmental impact | Mitigation | Embankments | Climate change | Plague | Reviews | Spatial planning | Dikes | Resource management | Risk management | Detection
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14. Full Text Human exposure to flash floods – Relation between flood parameters and human vulnerability during a storm of September 2002 in Southern France
by Ruin, Isabelle and Creutin, Jean-Dominique and Anquetin, Sandrine and Lutoff, Céline
Journal of Hydrology, ISSN 0022-1694, 2008, Volume 361, Issue 1, pp. 199 - 213
The aim of this paper is to investigate the detailed hydrometeorological circumstances that lead to accidental casualties, and to better understand the... 
Death circumstances | Mediterranean area | Vulnerability | Ungauged catchment | Flash-flood | UNIT-HYDROGRAPH | ENGINEERING, CIVIL | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | WATER RESOURCES | DEATHS | RAINFALL | Geography | Sciences of the Universe | Humanities and Social Sciences | Environmental and Society | Continental interfaces, environment | Environmental Sciences
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15. Full Text Floods in mountain environments: A synthesis
by Stoffel, Markus and Wyżga, Bartłomiej and Marston, Richard A
Geomorphology, ISSN 0169-555X, 11/2016, Volume 272, pp. 1 - 9
Floods are a crucial agent of geomorphic change in the channels and valley floors of mountains watercourses. At the same time, they can be highly damaging to... 
Geomorphic change | Environmental change | Flood | Mountain river | FLASH-FLOOD | LARGE WOOD | CHANNEL INCISION | CLIMATE-CHANGE | GRAVEL-BED RIVERS | DEBRIS-FLOW ACTIVITY | GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | TATRA MOUNTAINS | MAGNITUDE-FREQUENCY RELATIONSHIPS | POLISH CARPATHIAN RIVERS | SWISS ALPS | Floods | Sand, gravel and stone industry | Flood forecasting | Mountains | Geomorphology | Wood | Rivers | Resultants | Watercourses | Channels
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