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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-689-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-689-2022
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10 Feb 2022
Research article |  | 10 Feb 2022

Compound flood impact forecasting: integrating fluvial and flash flood impact assessments into a unified system

Josias Láng-Ritter, Marc Berenguer, Francesco Dottori, Milan Kalas, and Daniel Sempere-Torres

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During flood events, emergency managers such as civil protection authorities rely on flood forecasts to make informed decisions. In the current practice, they monitor several separate forecasts, each one of them covering a different type of flooding. This can be time-consuming and confusing, ultimately compromising the effectiveness of the emergency response. This work illustrates how the automatic combination of flood type-specific impact forecasts can improve decision support systems.