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A hydro-sedimentary modeling system for flash flood propagation and hazard estimation under different agricultural practices

Kourgialas Nektarios, Karatzas Giorgos

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URI: http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/F6D09D05-D1FD-441C-B33A-AC84E65088B2
Year 2014
Type of Item Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication
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Bibliographic Citation N.N. Kourgialas and G.P. Karatzas, "A hydro-sedimentary modeling system for flash flood propagation and hazard estimation under different agricultural practices," Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, vol. 14, pp. 625-634, Mar. 2014. doi:10.5194/nhess-14-625-2014 https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-625-2014
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A modeling system for the estimation of flash flood flow velocity and sediment transport is developed in this study. The system comprises three components: (a) a modeling framework based on the hydrological model HSPF, (b) the hydrodynamic module of the hydraulic model MIKE 11 (quasi-2-D), and (c) the advection–dispersion module of MIKE 11 as a sediment transport model. An important parameter in hydraulic modeling is the Manning's coefficient, an indicator of the channel resistance which is directly dependent on riparian vegetation changes. Riparian vegetation's effect on flood propagation parameters such as water depth (inundation), discharge, flow velocity, and sediment transport load is investigated in this study. Based on the obtained results, when the weed-cutting percentage is increased, the flood wave depth decreases while flow discharge, velocity and sediment transport load increase. The proposed modeling system is used to evaluate and illustrate the flood hazard for different riparian vegetation cutting scenarios. For the estimation of flood hazard, a combination of the flood propagation characteristics of water depth, flow velocity and sediment load was used. Next, a well-balanced selection of the most appropriate agricultural cutting practices of riparian vegetation was performed. Ultimately, the model results obtained for different agricultural cutting practice scenarios can be employed to create flood protection measures for flood-prone areas. The proposed methodology was applied to the downstream part of a small Mediterranean river basin in Crete, Greece.

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