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Assessment of flood risk in Mediterranean catchments: an approach based on Bayesian networks

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National and international technical reports have demonstrated the increase of extreme event occurrences which becomes more dangerous in coastal areas due to their higher population density. In Spain, flood and… Click to show full abstract

National and international technical reports have demonstrated the increase of extreme event occurrences which becomes more dangerous in coastal areas due to their higher population density. In Spain, flood and storm events are the main reasons for compensation according to the National Insurance Consortium. The aim of this paper is to model the risk of flooding in a Mediterranean catchment in the South of Spain. A hybrid dynamic object-oriented Bayesian network (OOBN) was learnt based on mixture of truncated exponential models, a scenario of rainfall event was included, and the final model was validated. OOBN structure allows the catchment to be divided into five different units and models each of them independently. It transforms a complex problem into a simple and easily interpretable model. Results show that the model is able to accurately watch the evolution of river level, by predicting its increase and the time the river needs to recover normality, which can be defined as the river resilience.

Keywords: risk; risk mediterranean; assessment flood; mediterranean catchments; catchments approach; flood risk

Journal Title: Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
Year Published: 2019

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