Environment

Global river flood hazard

Last Updated:
November 28, 2023
Countries:
United Arab Emirates
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158

Fluvial flood inundation layers from the GLOFRIS global flood model. Flood inundation maps were provided for 8 return periods between 5yr and 1000yr. The unit of the data is inundation depth in meters. The data resolution is 30 arc seconds (approximately 1km at the equator). The data are provided in GeoTIFF raster file format ‘.tif’, with the geographic projection EPSG:4326 WGS84. For further information on GLOFRIS: Ward, P.J., Jongman, B., Sperna Weiland, F., Bouwman, A., Van Beek, R., Bierkens, M.F.P., Ligtvoet, W., Winsemius, H.C., 2013. Assessing flood risk at the global scale: model setup, results, and sensitivity. Environmental Research Letters, 8, 044019, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044019. Winsemius, H.C., Van Beek, R., Jongman, B., Ward, P.J., Bouwman, A., 2013. A framework for global river flood risk assessments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 17, 1871-1892, doi:10.5194/hess-17-1871-2013.

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World Bank Group
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World Bank Group
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Topics
Environment  
Last Updated
November 28, 2023
Release Year
2021
Countries
United Arab Emirates
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Views
158
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TIFF