Abstract: Flood modelling in data-sparse regions have been always limited to empirical, statistical or geomorphic approaches that are suitable to produce regional hazard maps. Such coarse resolution maps are not adapted for basin-scale applications, small to medium sized basins (< 1000 km(2)), especially when detailed estimates of flows and water levels of a particular event is required and hence cannot replace the hydrological/hydraulic modelling. The latter is a challenging task in data-sparse regions characterized by floods of typical duration times o...
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