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From Real-Time Flood Forecasting to Comprehensive Flood Risk Management Decision Support Systems

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Floods and Flood Management

Part of the book series: Fluid Mechanics and its Applications ((FMIA,volume 15))

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This paper describes the research which is presently conducted under the CEC-EPOCH R&D programme, the research project AFORISM (A comprehensive FOrecasting system for flood RISk Mitigation and control) which aims to integrate, within the frame of a unique decision support system, the models representing the phenomena with all the other elements concurring to the decision making process. These range from the meteorological measurement networks, to the rainfall and rainfall-runoff models up to the artificial intelligence based decision support systems.

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Todini, E. (1992). From Real-Time Flood Forecasting to Comprehensive Flood Risk Management Decision Support Systems. In: Saul, A.J. (eds) Floods and Flood Management. Fluid Mechanics and its Applications, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1630-5_21

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