Floodaware : final report august 1996 / july 1998 : prevention and forecast of floods

The aim of this project is to give effective answers to help decision makers, engineers and researchers to develop solutions to their specific problems in flood risk prevention and forecasting.

The inondabilité method. Study and research for the implementation of an alert prototype system (APS) in mountainous catchments in North-West Italy. Design discharge calculations and flood plain management. Model and spatial database to assess design peak flow rates in the Waloon Region (Belgium). Rainfall analysis and regionalization computing intensity-duration-frequency curves. Flow regionalization. A stochastic flow model for QDF analysis. Flood risk modification downstream from reservoirs. A prototype of real time flood warning system in a Piedmont catchment. Study of extreme rainfalls. A case study in the Gort-Ardrahan area of South Galway. Economic valuation of the maximum acceptable risk. Application of the inondabilité method to the Riul Negru catchment (Romania). Perception of flood danger dependency on the site of living. Stochastic structure of rainfall at a point.