Flash flood warnings in context: combining local knowledge  and large-scale hydro-meteorological patterns

Bucherie, Agathe; Werner, Micha; van den Homberg, Marc; Tembo, Simon

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-461-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-461-2022

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Flash flood warnings in context: combining local knowledge and large-scale hydro-meteorological patterns

Agathe Bucherie, Micha Werner, Marc van den Homberg, and Simon Tembo

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Karonga historical flood occurrences and impacts dataset (2000-2018) A. Bucherie https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4661438

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Local communities in northern Malawi have well-developed knowledge of the conditions leading to flash floods, spatially and temporally. Scientific analysis of catchment geomorphology and global reanalysis datasets corroborates this local knowledge, underlining the potential of these large-scale scientific datasets. Combining local knowledge with contemporary scientific datasets provides a common understanding of flash flood events, contributing to a more people-centred warning to flash floods.