Sentence examples for flood intensity from inspiring English sources

That is, different indicators showed different ranks of flood intensity.

Peak flood discharge or peak flood level is usually used to describe the flood intensity.

FORSUM simulated the impacts of flood intensity and frequency on species composition and dynamics in the Upper Mississippi River floodplain ecosystem.

Urban areas are vulnerable to major flood damages due to the density of economic and social assets, and there is increasing interest in localized flood intensity predictions to implement flood risk reduction measures.

The number, depth, and thickness of BOHs were highly variable across the landscape and among replicates of the same stand type, reflecting differences in terrace age, flood frequency, flood intensity, river channel position, vegetation inputs, and decomposition.

Flood intensity became less in those locations far away from the river and the risk was higher in areas near to the river bank.

The indicators are designed to recognize the flood intensities including their magnitude and clustering features.

The fuzzy c-means algorithm (FCM) is then used to categorize flood events into similar groups within which the flood intensities exhibit high internal (within-cluster) homogeneity.

Simulations with calibrated versus a priori parameters of HL-RDHM show that HiResFlood-UCI produces reasonable results with the a priori parameters from NWS. Sensitivities to hydraulic model resistance parameters, mesh resolution and DEM resolution are also identified, pointing to the importance of model calibration and validation for accurate prediction of localized flood intensities.

On the other hand, as a consequence of the differing flood intensities and different flooding tolerance of the plants along the flooding gradient, tree distribution presents clear zonations in all four ecosystems.

Vegetation cover and plant species richness were measured, and management and flooding intensity were documented through farmer surveys.