Book Details

Flood Warning, Forecasting and Emergency Response

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-3-540-77853-0

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This book provides a comprehensive account of flood warning, forecasting and emergency response processes, including techniques for predicting the development of flood events and for issuing appropriate warnings. Topics such as telemetry and information systems, flood warning economics, and river and coastal monitoring are also discussed. This book brings together many aspects of this interesting multidisciplinary topic and will serve as a valuable reference for researchers, policy makers and engineers.


Subject: Earth and Environmental Science, Drainage, coastal thresholds, development, emergency response, flood warning, forecasting, urban drainage, meteorology, water quality and water pollution, climate change, Environmental Management, Meteorology, Water Pollution Control, Water Management, Aquatic Pollution, Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences