Global Flood Hazard

Guy J-P. Schumann, University of California Los Angeles, USA and University of Bristol, UKPaul D. Bates, University of Bristol, UKHeiko Apel, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, GermanyGiuseppe T. Aronica, University of Messina, Italy

• Contributors viiPreface xi1 The Need for Mapping, Modeling, and Predicting Flood Hazard and Risk at the Global ScalePhilip J. Ward, Erin Coughlan de Perez, Francesco Dottori, Brenden Jongman, Tianyi Luo, Sahar Safaie, and Steffi Uhlemann‐Elmer 1Part I: Flood Hazard Mapping and Modeling from Remote Sensing2 Rainfall Information for Global Flood ModelingDaniel B. Wright 193 Flood Risk Mapping From Orbital Remote SensingG. Robert Brakenridge 434 Flood Mapping Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Sensors From Local to Global ScalesAntara Dasgupta, Stefania Grimaldi, RAAJ Ramsankaran, Valentijn R. N. Pauwels, Jeffrey P. Walker, Marco Chini, Renaud Hostache, and Patrick Matgen 555 Flood Hazard Mapping in Data‐Scarce Areas: An Application Example of Regional Versus Physically Based Approaches for Design Flood EstimationKun Yan, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, and Florian Pappenberger 796 Global Flood Monitoring Using Satellite Precipitation and Hydrological ModelingHuan Wu, Guojun Gu, Yan Yan, Zhen Gao, and Robert F. Adler 877 Flood Hazard Mapping for the Humanitarian Sector: An Opinion Piece on Needs and ViewsKashif Rashid 115Part II: Flood Hazard Modeling and Forecasting8 Modeling and Mapping of Global Flood Hazard LayersAndrew Smith, Christopher Sampson, Jefferey Neal, Paul D. Bates, Mark Trigg, Jim Freer, Rob Porter, Melanie Kappes, Alanna Simpson, Brenden Jongman, and Kris Johnson 1339 Estimating Change in Flooding for the 21st Century Under a Conservative RCP Forcing: A Global Hydrological Modeling AssessmentAlbert J. Kettner, Sagy Cohen, Irina Overeem, Balazs M. Fekete, G. Robert Brakenridge, and James P. M. Syvitski 15710 From Precipitation to Damage: A Coupled Model Chain for Spatially Coherent, Large‐Scale Flood Risk AssessmentBruno Merz, Heiko Apel, Dung Nguyen, Daniela Falter, Björn Guse, Yeshewatesfa Hundecha, Heidi Kreibich, Kai Schröter, and Sergiy Vorogushyn 16911 Global Flood Risk Modeling and Projections of Climate Change ImpactsDai Yamazaki, Satoshi Watanabe, and Yukiko Hirabayashi 18512 Global Flood Forecasting for Averting Disasters WorldwideF. A. Hirpa, Florian Pappenberger, L. Arnal, C. A. Baugh, H. L. Cloke, E. Dutra, R. E. Emerton, B. Revilla‐Romero, Peter Salamon, P. J. Smith, E. Stephens, F. Wetterhall, E. Zsoter, and J. Thielen‐del Pozo 20513 Data Assimilation and River Hydrodynamic Modeling Over Large ScalesKonstantinos M. Andreadis 22914 Global Flood Hazard Mapping, Modeling, and Forecasting: Challenges and PerspectivesGuy Schumann, Paul D. Bates, Heiko Apel, and Giuseppe T. Aronica 239Index 245