Anthropogenic climate change is likely to significantly increase human exposure to droughts and floods. It will also …

very low, rain usually falls in the form of torrential storms, collected by dry valley basins and causing floods to …

Every year floods cause enormous damage all over the world. This study investigates loss of human life statistics for … different types of floods and different regions on a global scale. The OFDA/CRED Database contains data on international … flooding: river floods, flash floods and drainage problems. First, the development of loss of life statistics over time is …

and constructed synthetic response functions for quantification of impacts of floods on some of the key issues in the … affected by floods and thus may not require adaptation measures. The analysis did not provide high agreement on some issues …

characteristics. In this paper, the scaling property of regional floods in New South Wales (NSW) State in Australia is investigated …. The results indicate that the annual maximum floods in NSW satisfy a simple scaling assumption. The application of a …

Recent floods have become more abundant and more destructive than ever in many regions of the globe. Destructive floods … and vulnerability can be linked to climate variability and change. Links between climate change and floods have found … material on floods is scattered over many places of two large volumes of the TAR, the present contribution - a guided tour to …