An early warning system for flash floods in hyper-arid Egypt

An early warning system (EWS) for flash floods has been developed for part of the Sinai peninsula of Egypt, an hyper-arid area confronted with limited availability of field data, limited understanding of the response of the wadi to rainfall, and a lack of correspondence between rainfall data and obs...

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Main Authors: J. Cools, P. Vanderkimpen, G. El Afandi, A. Abdelkhalek, S. Fockedey, M. El Sammany, G. Abdallah, M. El Bihery, W. Bauwens, M. Huygens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2012-02-01
Series:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/12/443/2012/nhess-12-443-2012.pdf