Development of a stream flood susceptibility index at the municipal level in mainland Portugal

The growing computational capabilities and data availability promotes the development of flood susceptibility methodologies, although there is still field for improvement regarding small-scale flood susceptibility assessment. In this research, after assessing a national stream flood susceptibility (...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Santos, Pedro Pinto (author)
Outros Autores: Reis, Eusébio (author), Pereira, Susana (author), Santos, Mónica (author)
Formato: conferenceObject
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2019
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/40658
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/40658
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Resumo:The growing computational capabilities and data availability promotes the development of flood susceptibility methodologies, although there is still field for improvement regarding small-scale flood susceptibility assessment. In this research, after assessing a national stream flood susceptibility (SFS) on a cell-by-cell basis, a municipal representation of SFS was performed to rank the 278 municipalities in mainland Portugal.