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<p>Contributors vii</p> <p>Preface xi</p> <p>1 The Need for Mapping, Modeling, and Predicting Flood Hazard and Risk at the Global Scale<br /><i>Philip J. Ward, Erin Coughlan de Perez, Francesco Dottori, Brenden Jongman, Tianyi Luo, Sahar Safaie, and Steffi Uhlemann‐Elmer </i>1</p> <p><b>Part I: Flood Hazard Mapping and Modeling from Remote Sensing</b></p> <p>2 Rainfall Information for Global Flood Modeling<i><br />Daniel B. Wright</i> 19</p> <p>3 Flood Risk Mapping From Orbital Remote Sensing<i><br />G. Robert Brakenridge</i> 43</p> <p>4 Flood Mapping Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Sensors From Local to Global Scales<i><br />Antara Dasgupta, Stefania Grimaldi, RAAJ Ramsankaran, Valentijn R. N. Pauwels, Jeffrey P. Walker, Marco Chini, Renaud Hostache, and Patrick Matgen</i> 55</p> <p>5 Flood Hazard Mapping in Data‐Scarce Areas: An Application Example of Regional Versus Physically Based Approaches for Design Flood Estimation<i><br />Kun Yan, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, and Florian Pappenberger </i>79</p> <p>6 Global Flood Monitoring Using Satellite Precipitation and Hydrological Modeling<i><br />Huan Wu, Guojun Gu, Yan Yan, Zhen Gao, and Robert F. Adler</i> 87</p> <p>7 Flood Hazard Mapping for the Humanitarian Sector: An Opinion Piece on Needs and Views<i><br />Kashif Rashid</i> 115</p> <p><b>Part II: Flood Hazard Modeling and Forecasting</b></p> <p>8 Modeling and Mapping of Global Flood Hazard Layers<i><br />Andrew Smith, Christopher Sampson, Jefferey Neal, Paul D. Bates, Mark Trigg, Jim Freer, Rob Porter, Melanie Kappes, Alanna Simpson, Brenden Jongman, and Kris Johnson </i>133</p> <p>9 Estimating Change in Flooding for the 21st Century Under a Conservative RCP Forcing: A Global Hydrological Modeling Assessment<i><br />Albert J. Kettner, Sagy Cohen, Irina Overeem, Balazs M. Fekete, G. Robert Brakenridge, and James P. M. Syvitski</i> 157</p> <p>10 From Precipitation to Damage: A Coupled Model Chain for Spatially Coherent, Large‐Scale Flood Risk Assessment<br /><i>Bruno Merz, Heiko Apel, Dung Nguyen, Daniela Falter, Björn Guse, Yeshewatesfa Hundecha, Heidi Kreibich, Kai Schröter, and Sergiy Vorogushyn</i> 169</p> <p>11 Global Flood Risk Modeling and Projections of Climate Change Impacts<br /><i>Dai Yamazaki, Satoshi Watanabe, and Yukiko Hirabayashi </i>185</p> <p>12 Global Flood Forecasting for Averting Disasters Worldwide<i><br />F. A. Hirpa, Florian Pappenberger, L. Arnal, C. A. Baugh, H. L. Cloke, E. Dutra, R. E. Emerton, B. Revilla‐Romero, Peter Salamon, P. J. Smith, E. Stephens, F. Wetterhall, E. Zsoter, and J. Thielen‐del Pozo</i> 205</p> <p>13 Data Assimilation and River Hydrodynamic Modeling Over Large Scales<i><br />Konstantinos M. Andreadis</i> 229</p> <p>14 Global Flood Hazard Mapping, Modeling, and Forecasting: Challenges and Perspectives<i><br />Guy Schumann, Paul D. Bates, Heiko Apel, and Giuseppe T. Aronica</i> 239</p> <p>Index 245</p>

<p><b>Guy J-P. Schumann,</b> University of California Los Angeles, USA and University of Bristol, UK</p> <p><b>Paul D. Bates,</b> University of Bristol, UK</p> <p><b>Heiko Apel,</b> GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany</p> <p><b>Giuseppe T. Aronica,</b> University of Messina, Italy</p>

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