An Empirical Social Vulnerability Map for Flood Risk Assessment at Global Scale (“GlobE‐SoVI”) by Lena Reimann, Elco Koks, Hans de Moel, Marijn J. Ton, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

“…Due to its empirical foundation, the GlobE‐SoVI advances our understanding of social vulnerability drivers at global scale and can be used for global (flood) risk assessments.…”
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Developing a global operational seasonal hydro-meteorological forecasting system: GloFAS-Seasonal v1.0 by R. Emerton, R. Emerton, E. Zsoter, E. Zsoter, L. Arnal, L. Arnal, H. L. Cloke, H. L. Cloke, D. Muraro, C. Prudhomme, C. Prudhomme, C. Prudhomme, E. M. Stephens, P. Salamon, F. Pappenberger

“…Developed as an extension of the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS), GloFAS-Seasonal couples seasonal meteorological forecasts from ECMWF with a hydrological model to provide openly available probabilistic forecasts of river flow out to 4 months ahead for the global river network. …”
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Nature-based solutions for floods AND droughts AND biodiversity: Do we have sufficient proof of their functioning? by Ellis Penning, Reinaldo Peñailillo Burgos, Marjolein Mens, Ruben Dahm, Karin de Bruijn

“…Climate change and human-modified landscapes have led to an increase in global flood and drought risks, while biodiversity has declined. …”
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Using global datasets to estimate flood exposure at the city scale: an evaluation in Addis Ababa by Andrew B. Carr, Mark A. Trigg, Alemseged Tamiru Haile, Mark V. Bernhofen, Abel Negussie Alemu, Abel Negussie Alemu, Tilaye Worku Bekele, Tilaye Worku Bekele, Claire L. Walsh

“…Introduction: Cities located in lower income countries are global flood risk hotspots. Assessment and management of these risks forms a key part of global climate adaptation efforts. …”
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A global open-source database of flood-protection levees on river deltas (openDELvE) by J. H. Nienhuis, J. R. Cox, J. O'Dell, D. A. Edmonds, P. Scussolini

“…Here, we bridge this knowledge gap by collecting and standardizing global flood-protection levee data for river deltas into the open-source global river delta levee data environment, openDELvE. …”
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Reconstruction of missing streamflow series in human-regulated catchments using a data integration LSTM model by Arken Tursun, Xianhong Xie, Yibing Wang, Yao Liu, Dawei Peng, Yusufujiang Rusuli, Buyun Zheng

“…Study focus: We introduced a deep learning-based method, i.e., Data Integration (DI) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), which leverages Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) streamflow data. …”
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Global warming and population change both heighten future risk of human displacement due to river floods by Pui Man Kam, Gabriela Aznar-Siguan, Jacob Schewe, Leonardo Milano, Justin Ginnetti, Sven Willner, Jamie W McCaughey, David N Bresch

“…Adding projected population changes further exacerbates these increases globally and in most world regions, with the relative global flood displacement risk is increasing by roughly 350% at the end of the 21st century, compared to an increase of 150% without the contribution of population change. …”
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Evaluating the Potential of GloFAS-ERA5 River Discharge Reanalysis Data for Calibrating the SWAT Model in the Grande San Miguel River Basin (El Salvador) by Javier Senent-Aparicio, Pablo Blanco-Gómez, Adrián López-Ballesteros, Patricia Jimeno-Sáez, Julio Pérez-Sánchez

“…An example is the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS), which uses the fifth generation of reanalysis data produced by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ERA5) as input. …”
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Assessing flood risk at the global scale: model setup, results, and sensitivity by Philip J Ward, Brenden Jongman, Frederiek Sperna Weiland, Arno Bouwman, Rens van Beek, Marc F P Bierkens, Willem Ligtvoet, Hessel C Winsemius

“…We have developed and validated a model cascade for producing global flood risk maps, based on numerous flood return-periods. …”
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Simulation Of Flood Inundation Map Associated With Sediment Transport For Sungai Pahang by Chang, Chun Kiat

“…Several studies indicate that global flood risk is currently increasing. Rapid urbanisation has accelerated impact on the catchment hydrology and geomorphology. …”
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Satellite-Based Flood Mapping through Bayesian Inference from a Sentinel-1 SAR Datacube by Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger, Senmao Cao, Mark Edwin Tupas, Florian Roth, Claudio Navacchi, Thomas Melzer, Vahid Freeman, Wolfgang Wagner

“…The presented algorithm is part of the ensemble flood mapping product of the Global Flood Monitoring (GFM) component of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS).…”
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Investigation of Data-Driven Rating Curve (DDRC) Approach by Biplov Bhandari, Kel Markert, Vikalp Mishra, Amanda Markert, Robert Griffin

“…Thus, the rating curve has not been updated, making it difficult to effectively evaluate the performance of the global streamflow services, such as the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) and Streamflow Prediction Tool (SPT), whose longer lead time can benefit the country in taking early action. …”
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Using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to boost river streamflow forecasts over the western United States by K. M. R. Hunt, K. M. R. Hunt, G. R. Matthews, G. R. Matthews, F. Pappenberger, C. Prudhomme, C. Prudhomme, C. Prudhomme

“…The LSTM is trained on the catchment-mean meteorological and hydrological variables from the ERA5 and Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS)–ERA5 reanalyses as well as historical streamflow observations. …”
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Assessing Impacts of Flood and Drought over the Punjab Region of Pakistan Using Multi-Satellite Data Products by Rahat Ullah, Jahangir Khan, Irfan Ullah, Faheem Khan, Youngmoon Lee

“…In regard to 2010, the Global Flood Monitoring System (GFMS) model employs the TRMM and TMPA data products to display the study region during the 2010 flood events and validate the VTCI results. …”
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Investigating Drought and Flood Evolution Based on Remote Sensing Data Products over the Punjab Region in Pakistan by Rahat Ullah, Jahangir Khan, Irfan Ullah, Faheem Khan, Youngmoon Lee

“…During the year 2010, the Global Flood Monitoring System (GFMS) model applied to the real-time Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) rainfall incorporated data products into the TRMM Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) for the flood detection/intensity, stream flow, and daily accumulative precipitation, and presented the plain provisions to wetlands. …”
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A decadal review of the CREST model family: Developments, applications, and outlook by Zhi Li, Xianwu Xue, Robert Clark, Humberto Vergara, Jonathan Gourley, Guoqiang Tang, Xinyi Shen, Guangyuan Kan, Ke Zhang, Jiahu Wang, Mengye Chen, Shang Gao, Jiaqi Zhang, Tiantian Yang, Yixin Wen, Pierre Kirstetter, Yang Hong

“…The CREST model was the earliest implementation of a quasi-global flood model integrating remote-sensing data and is the first operational deployment of a real-time model in the National Weather Service functioning at flash flood scales across a continent. …”
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A globally applicable framework for compound flood hazard modeling by D. Eilander, D. Eilander, A. Couasnon, T. Leijnse, T. Leijnse, H. Ikeuchi, D. Yamazaki, S. Muis, S. Muis, J. Dullaart, A. Haag, H. C. Winsemius, P. J. Ward

“…Compound floods, which result from the co-occurrence of two or more of these drivers, typically exacerbate impacts compared to floods from a single driver. While several global flood models have been developed, these do not account for compound flooding. …”
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Methodology for constructing a flood-hazard map for a future climate by Y. Kimura, Y. Kimura, Y. Hirabayashi, Y. Kita, X. Zhou, D. Yamazaki

“…These results suggest that, in global flood-risk studies, future-hazard maps are important for proper estimation of climate-change risks rather than assessing solely changes in the frequency of occurrence of a given flood intensity.…”
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The critical role of the routing scheme in simulating peak river discharge in global hydrological models by Fang Zhao, Ted I E Veldkamp, Katja Frieler, Jacob Schewe, Sebastian Ostberg, Sven Willner, Bernhard Schauberger, Simon N Gosling, Hannes Müller Schmied, Felix T Portmann, Guoyong Leng, Maoyi Huang, Xingcai Liu, Qiuhong Tang, Naota Hanasaki, Hester Biemans, Dieter Gerten, Yusuke Satoh, Yadu Pokhrel, Tobias Stacke, Philippe Ciais, Jinfeng Chang, Agnes Ducharne, Matthieu Guimberteau, Yoshihide Wada, Hyungjun Kim, Dai Yamazaki

“…Global hydrological models (GHMs) have been applied to assess global flood hazards, but their capacity to capture the timing and amplitude of peak river discharge—which is crucial in flood simulations—has traditionally not been the focus of examination. …”
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Frequency Analysis and Investigation of the Factors Affecting 100-yr Peak-Flood in Iran’s Watersheds by ٍEsmaeel Parizi, Seiyed Mossa Hosseini

“…R. (2010). A digitized global flood inventory (1998–2008): Compilation and preliminary results. …”
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