Description:

Urban floods are flashy and can cause widespread damage due to the high concentration of population and development.  Flood warning plays a critical part in providing flood safety resilience to urban communities during intense storm events.  Early and more accurate rain and wind intensity forecasts, measurement, flood monitoring and forecasting, and timely communication of flood threat prior and during storm events are example ways in which a flood warning system can help reduce flood risk to a community.  This topical session encourages closer cross-disciplinary collaboration between atmospheric scientists and hydrologists to discuss their experiences in the following areas:

• Improvements to real-time modeling of flooding in urban environments
• Effectiveness of flood warning system
• Rainfall measurement techniques
• Discharge measurement techniques
• Validation of rainfall and discharges
• Monitoring of vulnerable assets (dams, low-water crossings etc.)
• Example applications of real-time flood forecasting
• Approaches to emergency notification
• Regional approaches to flood monitoring and forecasting
• Coastal flooding
• Lessons learned from past flooding

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