The value of large-scale climatic indexes for forecasting the severity of widespread flooding using dilated convolutional neural networks

Larisa Tarasova, Columbia University, Department Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Catchment Hydrology, Halle (Saale), Germany and Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, Columbia Water Center and Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States; Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States