Journal
JOURNAL OF FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12522
Keywords
flood hazard; flood inundation; Iber model; shallow water equations; support vector machine
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad) [CGL201346245-R]
- Spanish Regional Government of Galicia [ED481B 2014/156-0, ED481B 2018/016]
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Two-dimensional shallow water models are widely used tools for flood inundation mapping. However, even if High Performance Computing techniques have greatly decreased the computational time needed to run a 2D inundation model, this approach remains unsuitable for applications that require results in a very short time or a large number of model runs. In this paper we test a non-parametric regression model based on least squares support vector machines as a computationally efficient surrogate of the 2D shallow water equations for flood inundation mapping. The methodology is initially applied to a synthetic case study consisting of a straight river reach flowing towards the sea. A coastal urban area is then used as a real test case. Discharge in three streams and tide levels are used as predictor variables to estimate the spatial distribution of maximum water depth and velocity in the study area. The suitability of this regression model for the spatial prediction of flood hazard is evaluated. The results show the potential of the proposed regression technique for fast and accurate computation of flood extent and hazard maps.
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