flood management and hydrology

Our hydrologists are active in water resources assessment, watershed management and climate change studies often in the framework of strategic planning. Optimal design of flood protection works is supported by flood risk analyses using advanced tools like our state-of-the-art inundation modelling system Delft-FLS. We have world-wide experience in the implementation of advanced flood early warning systems for major river systems like the Rhine, Danube, Nile and Indus rivers. Water management organisations are supported by us while developing and enhancing their monitoring and information systems.

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specialist advice

• Hydrological assessments
• Monitoring networks and information systems
• Flood risk and damage assessment - EU Flood Directive
• Real-time flood forecasting and operational water management systems
• River hydraulics and morphology
• Land use and climate change studies

key projects

• Flood early warning system (FEWS), Switzerland (in PDF)
• Flow forecasting system Sistan basin, Iran (in PDF)
• Flood and Drought early warning system for Taiwan (in PDF)
• Flood forecasting system river Po, Italy (in PDF)
• Flood forecasting Donau, Austria (text only in German) - Hochwasservorhersagesystem Donau, Osterreich (in PDF)
• Flood forecasting Kamp, Austria (text only in German) - Hochwasservorhersagesystem Kamp, Osterreich (in PDF)
• Pantanal-Taquari project, Brazil (in PDF)
• Study on sustainable development of L'Albufera de Valencia, Spain (in PDF)
• National Flood Forecasting System, Engeland & Wales (in PDF)
• Technical Assistance Services for Lake Nasser Flood and Drought Control / Integration of Climate Change Uncertainty and Flooding Risk (in PDF)
• Study of drainage options for the Baldoyle development site, Ireland (in PDF)
• Caparo River Basin Flood Mitigation and Water Resouces Management Project (in PDF)
• Design Discharges for Rhine and Meuse "Randvoorwaardenbeok 2001" (in PDF)
• Odra SOBEK Model (in PDF)
• Flood Risk Studies for the River Meuse, Belgium
• Effect of Climate Change on Hydrology of the River Meuse (in PDF)
• Indus Flood Early Warning System, Pakistan
• NOAH - New Opportunities for Altimetry in Hydrology; funded by the European Commission
• RIBAMOD - River Basin Modelling, Management and Flood Mitigation; a Concerted Action funded by the European Commission
• EFFS - European Flood Forecasting System
• Influence of a planned urban area on the drainage of the Tieler- and Culemborgerwaarden polders
  (in PDF format; in Dutch)
• The Hydrology Project, India: Water Quality Monitoring (in PDF format)
• The Hydrology Project, India: Development of a Hydrological Information System (HIS)
  (in PDF format)
• Hydrological conditions in Indonesia (publication in PDF 6,4 MB; in Indonesian 12,1 MB)

software

• HYMOS information system for water and environment
• SOBEK hydrodynamic river modelling system
• Delft-FLS inundation modelling system
• Delft-FEWS flood early warning system
  

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