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Assessment and mapping of flood potential in the Slănic catchment in Romania

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Flood risk assessment is an important component of risk management. Given this context, this paper aims to identify and map areas with high potential for flash-floods and flooding occurrence, at different spatial scales (from catchment to local scale), in order to estimate the flood/flooding vulnerability. The paper is based on three main methods, which were applied in the Slănic River catchment (427 km2), located in the external curvature region of the Romanian Carpathians: (i) statistical analyses; (ii) determination and mapping of some indices to assess the flash-flood and flooding potential (FFPI and respectively FPI) and (iii) hydraulic modelling. The data used mainly include hydrological statistics (maximum monthly and annual discharges, flood-related data) and spatial data on catchment geographical characteristics (hypsometry, geology, soils, land use) obtained or derived from various sources (maps, aerial images, digital databases, field measurements) which were integrated into the GIS environment. The aforementioned methods helped to (i) highlight specificities of floods in the Slănic catchment (magnitude, frequency, flood waves characteristics); (ii) identify areas with high potential for flash-floods and flooding at the catchment spatial scale; (iii) assess the structural vulnerability in the Cernăteşti village, by simulating flood-prone areas for flood peaks with exceedance probability of 1%, 5% and 10%. The results could lead to a better knowledge and understanding of flood characteristics in the study area, in order to mitigate the flood risk through a more effective management, both at the catchment scale, as well as local scale (in the Cernăteşti village).

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The author, Costache Romulus, would like to specify that this paper has been financially supported within the project entitled “SOCERT. Knowledge society, dynamism through research”, contract number POSDRU/159/1.5/S/132406. This project is co-financed by European Social Fund through Sectoral Operational Programme for Human Resources Development 2007–2013 – Investing in people!

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    LILIANA ZAHARIA, ROMULUS COSTACHE & REMUS PRĂVĂLIE

  2. National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management, Şos. Bucureşti-Ploieşti 97, Sector 1, Bucureşti, România.

    ROMULUS COSTACHE & GABRIEL MINEA

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ZAHARIA, L., COSTACHE, R., PRĂVĂLIE, R. et al. Assessment and mapping of flood potential in the Slănic catchment in Romania. J Earth Syst Sci 124, 1311–1324 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-015-0608-3

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