Abstract: Retaining walls play a crucial role in mitigating flood risks, particularly in riverine environments affected by extreme climatic events. This study evaluates the effectiveness of retaining ...

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The study combined models that predict urban expansion and land-use changes with hydrodynamic models, and the results were validated using actual data for São Caetano do Sul, a city in metropolitan ...

In recent years, as a result of increasingly intensive rainfall events, the associated water erosion and corrosion have led to the increase in breach risk of aging dams in the United States. In this ...

Compound flooding is a physical phenomenon that has become more destructive in recent years. Moreover, compound flooding is a broad term that envelops many different physical processes that can range ...

Political and practical realities limit our knowledge of water resources in many parts of the world. Here, we present a radically different approach for quantitative remote sensing of river discharge ...