Advances and Challenges in Modelling Multi-hazard Flood Risk Across Riverine, Urban, and Coastal Systems

Session ID#: 281913

Session Description:
Flood risk rarely originates from a single source. The concurrent or sequential occurrence of riverine flooding, urban inundation, and coastal surge, compounded by extreme precipitation, antecedent soil moisture, and vulnerable entities, poses escalating threats to lives, infrastructure, and ecosystems worldwide. Yet modelling frameworks for these interacting hazards remain largely siloed, limiting our ability to capture cross-system feedbacks, cascading failures, and the full spectrum of compound flood scenarios.
This session invites contributions that advance the science of multi-hazard flood risk modelling across interconnected riverine, urban, and coastal systems. We particularly welcome studies that compare or couple hydrodynamic, statistical, and data-driven approaches, including machine learning and physics-based models, with an emphasis on model benchmarking, performance under data-scarce conditions, uncertainty quantification, and scalable flood mapping. Contributions addressing process representation of compound events, non-stationarity, and climate change impacts on flood frequency are strongly encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1821 Floods [HYDROLOGY]
4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener:  Mohit Prakash Mohanty, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Water Resources Development and Management, Roorkee, India
Conveners:  Ashok K Mishra, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States and Subhankar Karmakar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Centre for Climate Studies, Mumbai, India
Student/Early Career Convener:  Hrishikesh Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Water Resources Development and Management, Roorkee, India
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