Abstract
The occurrence of natural phenomena such as floods has caused serious consequences for human societies. The simulation of flood hazard maps and its depth in a river is one of the most complex processes in hydrology. In fact both geomorphological and hydraulic procedures for deriving the flood hazard maps and depth are imperfect at watershed scale. In this study, a combination of both procedures, using a probabilistic approach is used. Flood inundation maps for 2-, 10-, 25-,50- and 100-return period floods using flood routine within HEC-RAS in combination of Arc-GIS and topographic wetness index (TWI) map were produced. TWI threshold was identified using a maximum likelihood method in order to produce flood prone areas and calibrated over the reach of Zirab City. The correlation between TWI threshold and the flood depth was carried out and simple linear regression developed for various return periods. The resulting regression model is used in order to create flood hazard maps with various return periods at watershed scale.
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The authors would like to thank the Zirab municipality for providing the DEM of Zirab reach. Finally, the authors would like to appreciate unknown reviewers for their useful reviews and comments on this work.
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Motevalli, A., Vafakhah, M. Flood hazard mapping using synthesis hydraulic and geomorphic properties at watershed scale. Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess 30, 1889–1900 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-016-1305-8
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