Description:

Accurate estimation of flood hazards and associated risks are pivotal for decision-makers in flood mitigation and resilience efforts. Increasing frequency and intensity of hydrometeorological extremes under warming climate together with changing land-use dynamics are driving an increase to these flood hazards. Such human-climate interaction presents unique challenges to accurately monitor, predict, and forecast floods across scales. Recent advances in weather, hydrologic, and hydrodynamic models and their coupling provides an excellent opportunity for the scientific community to better understand and characterize elevated flood risks. New developments of low-cost sensor technologies in conjunction with human feedback further complement such efforts.  This session invites unique contributions exploring various aspects of floods from the vantage point of hydrologic and flood inundation modeling, instrumentation, forecasting, and hydroclimate projections. Specifically, we encourage submissions that focus on, but are not limited to, novel approaches to flood predictions (e.g., assimilation techniques, application of remote sensing observations), monitoring technologies (e.g., sensors), forecasting (e.g., large-scale high-resolution implementation of high-performance computing), communication (e.g., web applications), citizen science, uncertainty quantification, and watershed approach to flood risk management.