Extreme Precipitation and Floods: Monitoring, Modelling, and Forecasting

• Main Authors: Zheng, Duan, Hongkai , Gao, Mouleong , Tan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
• Subjects: P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/36957/1/%28Extreme_Precipitation_and_Floods%29_9350369.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/36957/; https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9350369

Flooding is one of the leading natural hazards [1]. Floods often cause enormous casualties and substantial property damage on a global scale every year. Extreme precipitation alongwith increasing urbanization is the main culprit of most floods. Under climate change, increases in extreme precipit...