Articles | Volume 21, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-117-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-117-2017
Research article
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09 Jan 2017
Research article |  | 09 Jan 2017

Assessing the impact of hydrodynamics on large-scale flood wave propagation – a case study for the Amazon Basin

Jannis M. Hoch, Arjen V. Haag, Arthur van Dam, Hessel C. Winsemius, Ludovicus P. H. van Beek, and Marc F. P. Bierkens

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Short summary
Modelling inundations is pivotal to assess current and future flood hazard, and to define sound measures and policies. Yet, many models focus on the hydrologic or hydrodynamic aspect of floods only. We combined both by spatially coupling a hydrologic with a hydrodynamic model. This way we are able to balance the weaknesses of each model with the strengths of the other. We found that model coupling can indeed strongly improve discharge simulation, and see big potential in our approach.