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Contribution of Geomatics to the Hydrological Study of an Ungauged Basin (Taguenit Wadi Watershed, Lakhssas, Morocco)

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Since the end of the last century, climate change has generated extreme pluviometric events favoring the triggering of flash floods, characterized by very high velocity and short rise times. These floods cause a lot of damage and thus, modified the activities in the flooded regions. Watershed of the Taguenit Wadi in the Western Anti-Atlas is a better example to study the effects of these extreme phenomena such as the last event in November 2014. The latter have indeed caused a lot of human and material damage, as well as the destruction of infrastructure and loss of soil. In this paper, a Flood Hazard Index (FHI) method was applied to study these extreme phenomena and determine their lateral extensions. Moreover, this method made it possible to map with great precision the areas vulnerable to flooding throughout the Taguenit Wadi basin. The FHI method is more advantageous in the basins, which are poorly gauged but seem to be less precise in terms of defining the water levels downstream of the basin.

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We appreciate the valuable comments and constructive suggestions from the co-editor Dr. Swatantra Kumar Dubey and an anonymous reviewer. Most data presented in this work were collected from 2020 to 2022, as part of the PhD thesis of the first author under the supervisor of Profs. Farid Faik and Said Boutaleb at Ibn Zohr University, Morocco. The authors are much obliged to the Springer proofreading team for handling the work, sending reviews, and preparing the proof.

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco

    Mustapha Ikirri, Farid Faik, Said Boutaleb, Mohamed Abioui, Abderrahmane Wanaim, Amine Touab, Mouna Id-Belqas & Fatima Zahra Echogdali

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Ikirri, M. et al. (2022). Contribution of Geomatics to the Hydrological Study of an Ungauged Basin (Taguenit Wadi Watershed, Lakhssas, 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_18

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