Wadi Flash Floods, 1st ed. 2022 Challenges and Advanced Approaches for Disaster Risk Reduction Natural Disaster Science and Mitigation Engineering: DPRI reports Series

This open access book brings together research studies, developments, and application-related flash flood topics on wadi systems in arid regions. The major merit of this comprehensive book is its focus on research and technical papers as well as case study applications in different regions worldwide that cover many topics and answer several scientific questions.

The book chapters comprehensively and significantly highlight different scientific research disciplines related to wadi flash floods, including climatology, hydrological models, new monitoring techniques, remote sensing techniques, field investigations, international collaboration projects, risk assessment and mitigation, sedimentation and sediment transport, and groundwater quality and quantity assessment and management.

In this book, the contributing authors (engineers, researchers, and professionals) introduce their recent scientific findings to develop suitable, applicable, and innovative tools for forecasting, mitigation, and water management as well as society development under seven main research themes as follows:

Part 1. Wadi Flash Flood Challenges and Strategies

Part 2. Hydrometeorology and Climate Changes

Part 3. Rainfall?Runoff Modeling and Approaches

Part 4. Disaster Risk Reduction and Mitigation

Part 5. Reservoir Sedimentation and Sediment Yield

Part 6. Groundwater Management

Part 7. Application and Case Studies

The book includes selected high-quality papers from five series of the International Symposium on Flash Floods in Wadi Systems (ISFF) that were held in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020 in Japan, Egypt, Oman, Morocco, and Japan, respectively. These collections of chapters could provide valuable guidance and scientific content not only for academics, researchers, and students but also for decision-makers in the MENA region and worldwide.

Acknowledgment

Preface

Summary Chapter

Part 1. Wadi Flash Floods Challenges and Strategies

Chapter 1. Integrated Strategies for Management of Wadi Flash Floods In The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Arid Zones: The ISFF Project

Chapter 2. Flood Risk Management Practices in Morocco: Facts and Challenges

Part 2. Hydrometeorology and Climate changes

Chapter 4. Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Temperature and Precipitation Over India

Chapter 5.  Analysis of The Hydrological Behavior of Watersheds in The Context of Climate Change (Northwestern Algeria)

Part 3. Rainfall-Runoff Modeling and Approaches

Chapter 6. Validation of Flash Flood Simulations Using Satellite Images And Community-Based Observations - Impact of Infiltration and Small-Scale Topographical Features

Chapter 7. Advanced Tools for Flood Management: An Early Warning System for Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

Chapter 8. Hydrologic Assessment of The Uncertainty of Six Remote Sensing Precipitation Estimates Driven by A Distributed Hydrologic Model in The Blue Nile Basin.

Chapter 9. Innovative Monitoring Techniques for Wadi Flash Flood by Using Image-Based Analysis

Chapter 10. A Temporally Varied Rainfall Simulator for Flash flood studies

Part 4. Disaster Risk Reduction and Mitigation

Chapter 11. The Role of Urban Planning and Landscape Tools Concerning Flash Flood Risk Reduction within Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

Chapter 12. Measuring Vulnerability to Flash Flood Of Urban Dwellers.

Chapter 13. Flash flood modeling and mitigation in arid and semi-arid basins: Case studies from Oman and Brazil

Chapter 14. Assessment of Exposure to Flash Flooding in An Arid Environment: A Case Study of The Jeddah City Neighborhood Abruq Ar Rughamah, Saudi Arabia

Part 5. Reservoir Sedimentation and Sediment Yield

Chapter 15. Integrated Study of Flash Floods in Wadi Basins Considering Sedimentation and Climate Change: An International Collaboration Project

Chapter 16. Sediment Transport in Shallow Waters: As A Multiphysics Approach

Chapter 17. Water Erosion and Sediment Transport In An Ungauged Semiarid Area: The Case Of Hodna Basin In Algeria

Chapter 18. Reservoir Sediment Management Practices in Sudan: A Case Study of Khashm El-Girba Dam

Chapter 19. Determining the Precipitation Intensity Threshold of Debris Flood Occurrence

Part 6. Groundwater Management

Chapter 20. Assessment of Groundwater Resources in Water Spring Areas Using Geophysical Methods, Northern UAE

Chapter 21.  Evaluation of the Effect of the Wadi Bih Dam on Groundwater Recharge, UAE

Chapter 22. Assessment the impacts of groundwater over-drafting on water quality and environment degradation at Fares area, Aswan, Egypt

Tetsuya Sumi is a professor at the Water Resources Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. He has a degree in civil engineering from Kyoto University. Subsequently, he worked for the Japanese Ministry of Construction. His specialties are hydraulics and dam engineering, with particular emphasis on integrated sediment management for reservoir sustainability and river basin environment improvement. He has contributed to several international associations and conferences, such as IAHR, ISRS, and ISE. He organized the 2nd International Workshop on Sediment Bypass Tunnels in 2017 in collaboration with ETH-Swiss and NTU-Taiwan. He recently conducted a general report of Q100 ‘RESERVOIR SEDIMENTATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT’ at the 26th ICOLD Congress, Vienna, Austria, in July 2018.

Sameh A. Kantoush is currently an associate professor at Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University. He received his master’s and doctorate degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Saga University in Japan and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, respectively. Prior to joining Kyoto, he served at the German University in Cairo (GUC) as an associate professor in the Civil Engineering Program. He is a member of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) and Syndicate of Engineers in Egypt. The industrial expertise of Dr. Kantoush is predominantly in infrastructure projects at multinational consulting firms in many countries. His research interests span the fundamentals of shallow flow and sediment transport, wadi flash floods, reservoir sustainability, ecohydraulics, dam impacts, and sediment management techniques.

Mohamed Saber is currently working as a specially appointed associate professor of the Water Resources Research Center, the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University. He has a Ph.D. in Hydrolog

Presents the latest technologies and advances in flood monitoring and forecasting

Uses multidisciplinary and integrated approaches to understand wadi flash floods

Is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access