Floods

Urban Flood Modeling

  1. Islam et al. (2025): “A Systematic Review of Urban Flood Susceptibility Mapping: Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Other Modeling Approaches.” Remote Sensing 17(3):524.
  2. Jemberie & Melesse (2021): “Urban Flood Management through Urban Land Use Optimization Using LID Techniques, City of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.” Water 13(1721).

Flood Frequency Analysis and Extreme Flow Studies

  1. Belay et al. (2025): “Identifying Flood Source Areas and Analyzing High-Flow Extremes Under Changing Land Use, Land Cover, and Climate in the Gumara Watershed, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia.” Climate 13(7).
  2. Tegegne et al. (2020): “Flood Frequency Analyses over Different Basin Scales in the Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia.” Hydrology 7(3):44.
  3. Melesse et al. (2009): “Low and High Flow Analysis and Wavelet Application for Characterization of the Blue Nile River System.” Hydrological Processes 24(3):241-252.
  4. Woldegebrael et al. (2019): “Historical Flood Events and hydrological extremes in Ethiopia.” In: Extreme Hydrology and Climate Variability.

Compound Flooding Models

  1. Peña et al. (2022): “Investigating compound flooding in a low elevation coastal karst environment using multivariate statistical and 2D hydrodynamic modeling.” Weather and Climate Extremes 100534.
  2. Peña et al. (2022): “Compound flood modeling framework for surface–subsurface water interactions.” Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 22(3):775-793.

Flood Simulation and Forecasting

  1. Mekonnen et al. (2022): “Merging satellite rainfall estimates and daily rain gauge observations for improved flood simulation in MelkaKuntire catchment, upper Awash Basin, Ethiopia.” Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 25:100701.
  2. Mekonnen et al. (2021): “How suitable are satellite rainfall estimates in simulating high flows and actual evapotranspiration in MelkaKunitre catchment, Upper Awash Basin, Ethiopia?” Science of The Total Environment 806:150443.
  3. Woldegebrael et al. (2020): “Rainfall and Flood Event Interrelationship – A Case Study of Awash and Omo-Gibe Basins, Ethiopia.” International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research 11(1):332-343.
  4. Dessu et al. (2016): “Flood Forecasting and Stream Flow Simulation of the Upper Awash River Basin, Ethiopia Using Geospatial Stream Flow Model (GeoSFM).” In: Landscape Dynamics, Soils and Hydrological Processes in Varied Climates.

Flood Susceptibility Mapping

  1. Mosavi et al. (2020): “Ensemble models of GLM, FDA, MARS, and RF for flood and erosion susceptibility mapping: a priority assessment of sub-basins.” Geocarto International 37(9):2541-2560.
  2. Nohani et al. (2019): “Flood spatial modeling in northern Iran using remote sensing and GIS: A comparison between evidential belief functions and their ensemble with multivariate logistic regression models.” Remote Sensing 11:1589.
  3. Khosravi et al. (2019): “Flood susceptibility mapping at Ningdu Catchment, China using Bivariate and Data Mining Techniques.” In: Extreme Hydrology and Climate Variability.

Flood Management Tools and Applications

  1. Wodebo et al. (2025): “Comprehensive performance evaluation of satellite-based and reanalysis rainfall estimate products in Ethiopia: For drought, flood, and water resources applications.” Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 57:102150.
  2. Woldegebrael et al. (2022): “Development and Evaluation of a Web-Based and Interactive Flood Management Tool for Awash and Omo-Gibe Basins, Ethiopia.” Water 14:2195.

Floodplain Modeling

  1. Peña et al. (2021): “Assessing geomorphic floodplain models for large scale coarse resolution 2D flood modelling in data scarce regions.” Geomorphology 389:107841.
  2. Enku et al. (2016): “Surface-groundwater interactions in sub-humid monsoon climate: The Lake Tana floodplain, Ethiopia.” Land Degradation and Development.
  3. Moges et al. (2019): “Climate Induced Flood Inundation in Fogera-Dera Flood Plain, Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia.” In: Extreme Hydrology and Climate Variability.

Dam Break and Flash Flood Analysis

  1. Khosravi et al. (2019): “Dam Break Analysis and Flood Inundation Mapping: The Case Study of Sefid-Roud Dam, Iran.” In: Extreme Hydrology and Climate Variability.
  2. Gebreslassie et al. (2020): “Linear spectral unmixing algorithm for modeling suspended sediment concentration of flash floods, upper Tekeze River, Ethiopia.” International Journal of Sediment Research 35(1):79-90.