Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 2
Articles | Volume 22, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-461-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-461-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 2
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16 Feb 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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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.
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