The phrase "artificial flood" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing engineered or controlled flooding, often related to environmental management or water resource management.
Example: "The city implemented an artificial flood to manage the water levels in the reservoir during the heavy rains."
Alternatives: "man-made flood" or "engineered flood".
"You may have an artificial flood for four hours, and then a drought for 20 hours, and then another artificial flood," Peter Bosshard, the interim executive director for International Rivers, an environmental advocacy based in Berkeley, California, says.
The Indus River is presently affected by: (1) artificial flood levees, (2) barrages and their irrigation canals, (3) sediment impoundment behind upstream reservoirs, and (4) inter-basin diversion.
This small artificial flood caused localized meter-scale scour and fill of the streambed, but did not cause further incision or significant bank erosion because of its small magnitude.
In Roman times artificial flood defences were built to keep out the tides from the nearby Severn Estuary, and ditches were dug.
As a whole, it is feasible to produce artificial flood-prevention stone by using the Yellow River silt.
The effects of alkali dosage, slag content and curing age on the compressive strength of artificial flood-prevention stone were studied.
In addition, frost resistance of the artificial flood-prevention stone at the age of 90 days was evaluated by freeze-thaw cycle method.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of producing a kind of artificial flood-prevention stone by using Yellow River silt via alkali-activated method.
Discarded cups, chocolate wrappers and bags litter ponds, parks and roadsides, clogging the already inadequate drainage system and causing artificial floods and traffic jams during the monsoon rains.
We demonstrate markedly different release patterns for two different groups of trace metals and significant changes in metal partitioning in the soil solid phase in response to artificial flooding.
Results indicated that higher ratios of amorphous:crystalline Fe occurred during artificial floods (urban = 0.60 and unmanaged forest = 0.14) than natural stormflows (urban = 0.08 and unmanaged forest = 0.03) in watersheds dominated by urban and unmanaged forest land cover, suggesting that crystalline (i.e., terrestrial) sources of Fe were transported to the stream during rainfall events.
