Flood Modelling for Management
Flood modelling is seen as an integral part of flood management. Models are used for planning and design as well as for forecasting floods so that mitigating measures can be taken in time. Decision support systems (DSS) based on models are increasingly being used by engineers and scientists in flood management.
Flood Modelling for Management is an online course run by UNESCO-IHE. If you want to know more about this course then please visit our online education page:
http://www.unesco-ihe.org/education/ilearning.htm
This section provides some components of the online course Flood Modelling for Management. Please note that the reading material provided in this section on many topics is only excerpts of the lecture notes used in the online course. You can click the following items to know more.
1 Flood management and information technology
Flood management needs and the role of flood modelling for efficient flood management, with special emphasis on the use of Information Technology. The course consists of the following units:
1.1 Floods and flood management
The tutorial section contains two lectures and a lecture note on this topic.
1.2 Hydroinformatics for flood management
1.3 Ecological issues in flood management
2 Flood processes
This unit contains the description of the hydrological processes involved and consists of the following components:
3 Flood modelling: methods and techniques
This unit contains the concepts and techniques of modelling of flood generation and propagation and consists of the following components:
4 Flood modelling: advanced features
This course consists of some advanced concepts of flood modelling.
4.2 Decision support systems for flood management
4.3 Uncertainty assessment in flood modelling
See what our previous participants have written on several topics on flood management using the resources available on the web:
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Usefulness of flood forecasting decision support systems: a brief report
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Forecasting of future river flow conditions from hydro-meteorological observations
1.1 Floods and Flood Management.pdf (PDF/37.79 kB)
1.2 Hydroinformatics for Flood Management.pdf (PDF/241.73 kB)
1.3 Ecological Issues in Flood Management.pdf (PDF/186.29 kB)
2.1 Meteorological Inputs.pdf (PDF/33.89 kB)
2.2 Rainfall Runoff Processes.pdf (PDF/27.30 kB)
2.3 Free Surface Flows.pdf (PDF/54.17 kB)
3.1 Rainfall Runoff Modelling.pdf (PDF/48.40 kB)
3.2 Catchment Modelling.pdf (PDF/655.50 kB)
3.3 Flood Routing.pdf (PDF/63.70 kB)
3.4 Urban Flood Modelling.pdf (PDF/50.61 kB)