Derivation of short-durations DDF using scaling properties of rainfall data at partially-gauged site

Report on Sicily

A robust estimation of sub-hourly ddf curves in partially urbanised catchments

Can uncertainty in flood hazard estimation be reduced by using high detailed topographic data for floodplain modelling?

Floods are considered the most frequent natural disaster world-wide and may have serious socio economic impacts in a community. In order to accomplish flood risk mitigation, flood risk analysis and assessment are required to provide information on current or future flood hazard and risks. Hazard and risk maps involve different data, expertise and effort, depending also on the end-users. More or less advanced deterministic approaches can be used, but intuitively probabilistic approaches seem to be more correct and suited for modelling flood inundation given typical uncertainties. Two very important matters remain open for research: the calibration of hydraulic models (oriented towards the es…

Procedures for the redaction of flood risk maps based on the derivation of proper specific indexes for urban areas