Journal
NATURAL HAZARDS
Volume 85, Issue 1, Pages 87-109Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-016-2559-7
Keywords
Rainfall-runoff modeling; Inundation modeling; Statistical analysis; Flash flood; Wadi Fatimah; Protection dams; Data scarcity; Reservoir routing; Elevation-capacity curve
Funding
- Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah [416/155/1434]
- DSR
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This paper presents a proposed integrated approach for flood hazardous evaluation in arid and semi-arid areas. Wadi Fatimah in Saudi Arabia is utilized for implementation of such an approach. The approach consists of four stages. In the first stage, a statistical analysis of rainfall data is performed to determine the design storms at specified return periods. In the second stage, geological and geomorphologic analyses are followed to estimate the geomorphic parameters. The third stage concerned with land use and land cover analyses linked with hydrological analysis to estimate the hydrographs. The fourth stage is related to the delineation of the inundation area under two scenarios: the presence and absence of the dam. The statistical analysis proved that some rainfall stations do not follow a Gumbel distribution. The presence of the dam reduces the inundation depth by about 10 %. The reduction in the inundation area due the presence of the dam is about 25 %.
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