Author(s): Wongsa Sanit; Uruya Weesakul
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Keywords: Flash flood; Flood disaster; Laos; Thailand; IRIC software
Abstract: Indochina is one of the most disaster prone regions in the world. Floods are one of the most frequent natural disasters, with devastating impacts on agricultural, infrastructure, industrial and human life who live along river basins. Flood forecasting and early warning is one of the most effective flood risk management strategies to minimize the negative impacts of floods. Flood risk information, to be useful for planning and decision - making for risk reduction. The iRIC software is a free numerical simulation platform supporting a wide variety of applications for water science and engineering. This research is performed by iRIC software for flood disaster study in terms of analyzing dam-break and dike-breach flash flooding in Laos and Thailand. The results shown that the iRIC software can accurately calculate flash flood disaster for gauge and ungauged basins. Therefore, indicating that iRIC software playing important challenge for flood forecasting and early warning tool.
Year: 2020