Global Drought and Flood Monitoring, Prediction, and Adaptation

Recent advances in the modeling and remote sensing of droughts and floods

Droughts and floods are causing increasing damage worldwide, often with devastating short- and long-term impacts on human society. Forecasting when they will occur, monitoring them as they develop, and learning from the past to improve disaster management is vital.

Global Drought and Flood: Observation, Modeling, and Prediction presents recent advances in the modeling and remote sensing of droughts and floods. It also describes the techniques and products currently available and how they are being used in practice.

Volume highlights include:

• Remote sensing approaches for mapping droughts and floods
• Physical and statistical models for monitoring and forecasting hydrologic hazards
• Features of various drought and flood systems and products
• Use by governments, humanitarian, and development stakeholders in recent disaster cases
• Improving the collaboration between hazard information provision and end users

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Find out more about this book from this Q&A with the Author.

Huan Wu, Assistant research Scientist, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland.

Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles.

Qiuhong Tang, Researcher, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Philip Ward, Deputy Head, Department of Water and Climate Risk, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), and Assistant Professor, Global Water and Climate Risk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Preface (Huan Wu)

Introduction: Prospects for development of unified global observation and prediction systems for drought and flood risk assessment and response
Lead author (Dr. Dennis P. Lettenmaier, UCLA)

Section 1: Remote sensing for global drought and flood observations

Chapter 1: Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration for global drought mapping
Lead author: Chris Hain, Xiwu Zhan, Li Fang (NOAA STAR);
Or Martha C. Anderson, Feng Gao, USDA-ARS; or Qiaozhen Mu, Steven Running (Univerity of Montana)

Chapter 2: Optical remote sensing for flood mapping: (MODIS, VIIRS, ETM+ …)
Lead author (Dr. Donglian Sun, Dr. Sanmei Li, George Mason University, USA)
Or Dr. Dan Slayback, Dr. Fritz Policelli, NASA GSFC;

Chapter 3: Microwave remote sensing for flood mapping
Possible lead author (Dr. Sang-Ho, Yu, NASA JPL, USA) or Dr. G. Robert Brakenridge, University of Colorado, USA

Chapter 4: Remote sensing of reservoir
Lead author (Dr. Huilin Gao, UT A&M)

Chapter 5: The SWOT Mission and Its Capabilities for monitoring global rivers
Possible lead author (Dr. Tamlin M. Pavelsky, University of North Carolina;)        

Section 2: Fundamental datasets for global drought and flood models

Chapter 6: Development of a long-term high-resolution global dataset of meteorological forcings for land surface modeling
Possible lead author (Eric Wood, Princeton U.)

Chapter 7: Near real-time satellite-based global drought climate data record
Possible lead author (Amir AghaKouchak, UC Irvine)

Chapter 8: Fundamental dataset for global drought and flood modeling: Precipitation
Possible lead author (Dr. Robert Adler, University of Maryland, George Huffman, Dr. David Bolton, NASA GSFC; Dr. Kylke Beck, University of Princeton;)

Chapter 9: Fundamental dataset for global drought and flood modeling: DEM and Drainage network
Lead author (Dr. Dai Yamazaki, University of Tokyo, Japan; Dr. Huan Wu, University of Maryland)

Chapter 10: Fundamental dataset for global drought and flood modeling: Land Use Land Cover
Possible lead author (Dr. Ming Feng, Chengquan Huang, University of Maryland Or Fundamental dataset for global drought and flood modeling: land surface water bodies 
Possible lead author (Dr. Bernhard Lehner, McGill University)

Section 3: Modeling and prediction of global drought and flood

Chapter 11: Global Characteristics of Flash Droughts from observations and simulations
Lead author (Mu Xiao, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, UCLA)

Chapter 12: Statistical-Dynamical Modeling Framework for Drought Monitoring and Forecasting
Possible lead author: Hamid Moradkhani, (Portland State University) Or Optimal drought forecasts from a multi-model framework
Possible lead author: Joshua K. Roundy, University of Kansas

Chapter 13: Continental-scale drought monitoring and forecasting with the VIC model
Possible lead author: Justin Sheffield (Princeton U., Lifeng Luo, Joshua K. Roundy, Xin Yuan,) Or
NOAA NCEP Drought monitor and seasonal drought outlook
Possible lead author: Kingtse Mo, Youlong Xia (NOAA NCEP); Lifeng Luo (Michigan State University)

Chapter 14: Land surface and routing model for global flood modeling: HTESSEL-LisFlood for Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS)�AVIC-DRTR for Global Flood Monitoring System (GFMS), CaMa-Flood�CCLM-MOSART
Lead authors (Huan Wu, UMD; Dr. Lorenzo Alfieri, EC JRC; Dai Yamazaki, U. Tokyo; Hongyi Li, Montata State University)

Chapter 15: Ensemble hydrological forecasting using hydrological model with meteorological forecasts in China
Lead author (Dr. Qiuhong Tang, IGSNRR, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Chapter 16: Integrating EO data of floods with large-scale hydrodynamic models
Lead author (Guy Schumann, Remote Sensing Solutions Inc)

Chapter 17: Statistical models for flood frequency estimation
Possible lead author (Dr. Huijuan Cui, IGSNRR, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Or Reservoir operation module in global flood and drought modeling
Possible lead author (Dr. Nathalie Voisin, DOE PNNL; Dr. Huilin Gao, University of Texas A& M) or Dr. Tongtiegang Zhao, CSIRO Land and Water Automated calibration for global flood modeling
Possible lead author (Dr. Qinyun Duan,  Beijing Normal University, China)
High-resolution physically-based global flood hazard mapping
Possible lead author (Yasir Kaheil, FM Global Research, USA; Yi Mei)
Flood inundation modelling and monitoring in data-poor areas
Possible lead author (Dr. Florian Pappenberger, ECMWF)

Section 4: Global drought and flood risk assessment

Chapter 18: Assessing drought risk under climate change 
Possible lead author (Candida Dewes, Mike Hobbins, Colorado State University/NOAA) or
Imtiaz Rangwala (University of Colorado at Boulder); Celine Bonfils (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Chapter 19: Multivariate standardized drought index and drought risk assessment
Possible lead author (Zengchao Hao, Beijing Normal University)
Or Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano (Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Zaragoza, Spain)

Chapter 20: Global climate change and drought: a risk assessment of crop-yield impacts
Possible lead author (Yinpeng Li, Meng Wang, University of Waikato)

Chapter 21: Global flood risk under climate change
Possible lead author (Dr. Yukiko Hirabayashi, University of Tokyo)
Or
Global flood risk mapping
Possible lead author (Dr. Francesco Dottori, Dr. Feyera A Hirpa, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy)

Chapter 22: Hydrological Modeling Framework for Flood Risk Assessment and uncertainty
Possible lead author (Dr. Hamed Ashouri, AIR Worldwide Boston, Boston, MA, United States)
Or Dr. Heiko Apel, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam

Section 5: Drought and Flood risk management and socioeconomic response

Chapter 23: The Role of Monitoring and Prediction Within Drought Risk Management
Possible lead author (Michael Hayes, Mark Svoboda or Brian Fuchs UNL) Or Managing drought risk in a changing climate Possible lead author (Donald A. Wilhite, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

Chapter 24: USAID drought and food insecurity monitoring, assessment and response: Famine Early Warning Systems Network



Possible lead author (Chris Funk (USGS/ UCSB;  Gabriel Senay, USGS; James P. Verdin, USGS

Chapter 25: Global flood risk: from modeling to management
Possible lead author (Dr. Philip Ward, VUA Amsterdam)

Chapter 26: NASA’s Support to Flood and Drought Response
Possible lead author (Dr. David S Green, NASA Headquarters)

Chapter 27: FEMA's (or UN World Food Programme, WFP)  response to flooding with integrated flood information
Possible lead author (Dr. Russell Glen, Dr. Chris Vaughn, FEMA); Emily Niebuhr, UN World Food Programme (WFP)/National Weather Service, USA)
or Using space technology and geospatial information for flood management in China
Lead author (Dr. Suju Li, National Disaster Reduction Centre of China (NDRC))

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