Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basins

The Ganges Basin in South Asia is home to some of the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities. Impacted by catastrophic annual floods, the region is recognized as highly disaster prone, causing widespread human suffering and economic losses. In recognition of these challenges, many grou...

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Main Authors:	Priya, Satya, Young, William, Hopson, Thomas, Avasthi, Ankit
Format:	Technical Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	FLOOD MANAGEMENT RIVER BASINS GANGES BASIN FLOOD RISK MODELING FORECASTING
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/272611508255892547/Flood-risk-assessment-and-forecasting-for-the-Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna-River-basins http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28574

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spelling	okr-10986-285742021-05-25T09:04:59Z Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basins Priya, Satya Young, William Hopson, Thomas Avasthi, Ankit FLOOD MANAGEMENT RIVER BASINS GANGES BASIN FLOOD RISK MODELING FORECASTING The Ganges Basin in South Asia is home to some of the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities. Impacted by catastrophic annual floods, the region is recognized as highly disaster prone, causing widespread human suffering and economic losses. In recognition of these challenges, many groups are actively and cooperatively engaged in reducing South Asia's vulnerability to flooding. As a contribution to these efforts, the World Bank recently commissioned specialist teams to assess and map flood risk across the Ganges River basin and to design and evaluate flood forecasting tools for the greater Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin. Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basins summarizes the technical findings, includes highlights of the work, and links to the full technical reports and new interactive online resources. The report provides, for the first time, a numbers-based view of the impacts of floods of different severities across the Ganges basin, helping identify priority areas for addressing flood risks (for example, relocating levees, improving flood warning systems, and boosting overall economic resilience). This report on the flood forecasting system provides probability-based flood forecasts for more than 85 Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin locations along with near-real-time data maps of rainfall (predicted and actual) and river levels. 2017-10-25T19:09:48Z 2017-10-25T19:09:48Z 2017-10-01 Technical Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/272611508255892547/Flood-risk-assessment-and-forecasting-for-the-Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna-River-basins http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28574 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper South Asia
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description	The Ganges Basin in South Asia is home to some of the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities. Impacted by catastrophic annual floods, the region is recognized as highly disaster prone, causing widespread human suffering and economic losses. In recognition of these challenges, many groups are actively and cooperatively engaged in reducing South Asia's vulnerability to flooding. As a contribution to these efforts, the World Bank recently commissioned specialist teams to assess and map flood risk across the Ganges River basin and to design and evaluate flood forecasting tools for the greater Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin. Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basins summarizes the technical findings, includes highlights of the work, and links to the full technical reports and new interactive online resources. The report provides, for the first time, a numbers-based view of the impacts of floods of different severities across the Ganges basin, helping identify priority areas for addressing flood risks (for example, relocating levees, improving flood warning systems, and boosting overall economic resilience). This report on the flood forecasting system provides probability-based flood forecasts for more than 85 Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin locations along with near-real-time data maps of rainfall (predicted and actual) and river levels.
format	Technical Paper
author	Priya, Satya Young, William Hopson, Thomas Avasthi, Ankit
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title	Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basins
title_short	Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basins
title_full	Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basins
title_fullStr	Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basins
title_full_unstemmed	Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basins
title_sort	flood risk assessment and forecasting for the ganges-brahmaputra-meghna river basins
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/272611508255892547/Flood-risk-assessment-and-forecasting-for-the-Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna-River-basins http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28574
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Flood Risk Assessment and Forecasting for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basins

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