Towards the provision of site specific flood warnings using wireless sensor networks
✍ Scribed by Paul J. Smith; Danny Hughes; Keith J. Beven; Philip Cross; Wlodek Tych; Geoff Coulson; Gordon Blair
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 773 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1350-4827
- DOI
- 10.1002/met.130
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
An important aspect of flood risk management is the issuing of timely flood alerts. The spatial, as well as temporal, scale of these warnings is important. In many situations efficient risk management may be aided by the provision of local flood predictions at a high spatial resolution. Examples of such situations include issuing warnings for small groups of outlying houses or key infrastructure locations such as power sub‐stations. In this paper a methodology for providing automated, detailed and location specific warnings which are computed ‘on‐site’ is presented. Copyright © 2009 Royal Meteorological Society