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The impact of flood control on the loss of wetlands in Argentina
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2012-11)
1. Wetlands are among the most important ecosystems on Earth, but historically they have been degraded and destroyed by humans. The south east of Córdoba province in central Argentina was covered by hundreds of wetlands ...
Mapeamento de áreas suscetíveis a inundações na bacia hidrográfica do rio Sorocaba e Médio Tietê (SP)
(Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), 2022-08-12)
Em razão aos danos associados às inundações, o mapeamento de áreas suscetíveis a esse fenômeno natural assume uma parte primordial na geotecnia ambiental. No Brasil, em virtude das características climáticas e hidrogeológicas, ...
Análise bayesiana de frequência de vazões máximas anuais com informações históricas: aplicação à bacia do rio São Francisco em São Francisco
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2005-08-08)
The estimation of the exceedance probability of a rare flood is a current problem in engineering. However, rare floods are associated to high return periods which are much longer than the time span covered by systematic ...
Analyzing investments in flood protection structures: A real options approach
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020-02-01)
The soaring number of natural hazards in recent years due largely to climate change has resulted in an even higher level of investment in flood protection structures. However, such investments tend to be made in the aftermath ...
Flood quantiles scaling with upper soil hydraulic properties for different land uses at catchment scale
(Journal of Hydrology, 2019)
Método para a estimação de quantis de enchentes extremas com o emprego conjunto de análise bayesiana, de informações não sistemáticas e de distribuições limitadas superiormente
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2009-02-13)
Some recent researches on fluvial processes suggest the idea that some hydrological variables, such as flood flows, are upper-bounded. However, almost all probability distributions that are currently employed in flood ...
Uso de cartografías sociales en calibración de modelos numéricos bidimensionales de inundaciones.
(Universidad de ConcepciónFacultad de Ingeniería.Departamento de Ingeniería CivilConcepción., 2023)
Las simulaciones numéricas de alta precisión de inundaciones pueden contribuir a mejorar el análisis del riesgo. Desafortunadamente, los eventos de inundación de grandes magnitudes son escasos y complejos de medir, por lo ...
Multi-decadal Hydrological Retrospective: case study of Amazon floods and droughts
(Elsevier, 2017-06)
Recently developed methodologies such as climate reanalysis make it possible to create a historical record of climate systems. This paper proposes a methodology called Hydrological Retrospective (HR), which essentially ...