Flood

Question 1

Two types of flood modelling

Answer 1

Event based simulation
Flood hazard maps

Question 2

In the process of event based simulation _______ are created

Answer 2

Flood hazard maps

Question 3

How does Verisk simulate precipitation at a continental scale

Answer 3

Couples GCM and NWP model at a mesoscale resolution. Global Circulation Model
Numerical Weather Prediction

Question 4

Both on plane and offplain flooding start out as

Answer 4

Precipitation

Question 5

Off plain is driven by

Answer 5

Runoff that does not make it into the river

Question 6

On plain in driven by

Answer 6

Water that exceeds a rovers capacity and flows onto the floodplain

Question 7

Our hydraulic model is an in-house recreation of well accepted _____ that uses the energy balance between cross section cut lines to predict water surface elevations along a river profile

Answer 7

Army Corps of engineers HEC-RAS Hydraulic engineering centres river analysis system