An improved rainfall-threshold approach for robust prediction and warning of flood and flash flood hazards

Ramos, Geraldo Moura; Rabelo, Victor Hugo; Silva, Emerson da; Xuan, Yunqing; Neves, Cristiano das

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An improved rainfall-threshold approach for robust prediction and warning of flood and flash flood hazards

Geraldo Moura Ramos Filho, Victor Hugo Rabelo Coelho, Emerson da Silva Freitas, Yunqing Xuan

, Cristiano das Neves Almeida

Natural Hazards, Volume: 105, Issue: 3, Pages: 2409 - 2429

Swansea University Author: Yunqing Xuan

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This paper presents an improved method of using threshold of peak rainfall intensity for robust flood/flash flood evaluation and warnings in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The improvements involve the use of two tolerance levels and the delineating of an intermediate threshold by incorporating an e...

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An improved rainfall-threshold approach for robust prediction and warning of flood and flash flood hazards

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