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Mohamed Abdulrazzak, Amro Elfeki, Ahmed Kamis, Moustafa Kassab, Nassir Alamri, Anis Chaabani & Kashif Noor (2019) Flash flood risk assessment in urban arid environment: case study of Taibah and Islamic universities’ campuses, Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 10:1, 780-796, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2018.1545705

Flash flood risk assessment in urban arid environment : case study of Taibah and Islamic universities’ campuses, Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Author: Abdulrazzak, Mohamed1; Elfeki, Amro2; Kamis, Ahmed2;
Organizations: 1Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Taibah University, Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
2Department of Hydrology and Water Resources Management – Faculty of Meteorology, Environment and Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
3Laboratoire de Recherche de Géodésie (LAREG), Université Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallée (UPEM), Paris, France
4Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Format: article
Version: published version
Access: open
Online Access: PDF Full Text (PDF, 3.3 MB)
Persistent link: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe201903199356
Language: English
Published: Informa, 2019
Publish Date: 2019-03-19
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Abstract

Flooding impacts can be reduced through application of suitable hydrological and hydraulic tools to define flood zones in a specific area. This article proposes a risk matrix technique which is applied on a case study of Taibah and Islamic universities catchment in Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The analysis is based on integration of the hydrologic model hydraulic models to delineate the flood inundation zones. A flood risk matrix is developed based on the flood occurrence probability and the associated inundation depth. The risk matrix criterion is classified according to the degree of risks as high, moderate and low. The case study has indicted low to moderate risk for flood frequencies of 5 years return periods and moderate to high risk may exist for flood with rerun period of 50 and 100 years. The results are projected on a two-dimensional satellite images that shows the geographical locations exposed to flooding. A quantitative summary of the results have been presented graphically to estimate the magnitude of the inundation areas that can assess the degree of damage and its economic aspects. The developed flood risk matrix tool is a quantitative tool to assess the damage which is crucial for decision makers.

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Series: Geomatics, natural hazards & risk
ISSN: 1947-5705
ISSN-E: 1947-5713
ISSN-L: 1947-5705
Volume: 10
Issue: 1
Pages: 780 - 796
DOI: 10.1080/19475705.2018.1545705
OADOI: https://oadoi.org/10.1080/19475705.2018.1545705
Type of Publication: A1 Journal article – refereed
Field of Science: 112 Statistics and probability
1171 Geosciences
218 Environmental engineering
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Funding: This article is one of the outcomes of KASCT funded research project ART 34-46. Appreciate KACST funding of the project.
Copyright information: © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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