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Articles | Volume 28, issue 5
Articles | Volume 28, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-1107-2024
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Articles | Volume 28, issue 5
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04 Mar 2024
Research article |  | 04 Mar 2024

Flood risk assessment for Indian sub-continental river basins

Urmin Vegad, Yadu Pokhrel, and Vimal Mishra

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A large population is affected by floods, which leave their footprints through human mortality, migration, and damage to agriculture and infrastructure, during almost every summer monsoon season in India. Despite the massive damage of floods, sub-basin level flood risk assessment is still in its infancy and needs to be improved. Using hydrological and hydrodynamic models, we reconstructed sub-basin level observed floods for the 1901–2020 period.
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