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Contribution of GIS to the Mapping of the Sensitivity of the Flood's Hybrid Multi-criteria Decision Approach: Example of the Wadi Tamlest Watershed (Agadir, Morocco)

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Since the end of the last century, climate change has generated qualified pluviometric events favoring the triggering of flash floods characterized by very high speeds and fairly short rise times. These floods caused extensive damage and paralyzed all activities in the flooded regions, as was the case during the last event in November 2014 which left behind a significant body of human and material damage in the different regions of Morocco. The Wadi Tamlest watershed located north of the Agadir city is a good example of areas affected by floods. The FHI (Flood Hazard Index) method was applied to study these extreme phenomena and to determine their lateral extensions using six factors influencing the floods (accumulation of flow, distance from the main wadis, drainage density, land use, slope, and permeability). This method made it possible to map with great precision the areas vulnerable to flooding throughout the Wadi Tamlest watershed. Finally, the application of the FHI method is more advantageous in basins not equipped with hydrometric stations but seems less precise in terms of defining the water heights downstream of the basin.

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Our sincere gratitude is offered to the editor Dr. Vivek Gupta and an anonymous reviewer for the very useful comments and suggestions on the earlier of the manuscript. This research was partly supported by the Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Zohr University, through an ongoing internal project. No seniority of authorship is implied by the order of names; this paper is the product of a true and entirely equal collaboration. All authors have approved the final version of the manuscript. The authors are much obliged to the Springer proofreading team for handling the work, sending reviews, and preparing the proof.

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    Abderrahmane Wanaim, Mustapha Ikirri, Mohamed Abioui & Farid Faik

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Wanaim, A., Ikirri, M., Abioui, M., Faik, F. (2022). Contribution of GIS to the Mapping of the Sensitivity of the Flood's Hybrid Multi-criteria Decision Approach: Example of the Wadi Tamlest Watershed (Agadir, Morocco). In: Dubey, S.K., Jha, P.K., Gupta, P.K., Nanda, A., Gupta, V. (eds) Soil-Water, Agriculture, and Climate Change. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12059-6_16

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