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Comparison of estimated flood exposure and consequences generated by different event-based inland flood inundation maps
Joseph L. Gutenson
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS 39180, United States
Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, United States
Ahmad A. Tavakoly
Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS 39180, United States
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, United States
Mohammad S. Islam
Galveston District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston, TX 77550, United States
Oliver E. J. Wing
Fathom, Bristol, United Kingdom
William P. Lehman
Hydrologic Engineering Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Davis, CA 95616, United States
Chase O. Hamilton
Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS 39180, United States
Mark D. Wahl
Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS 39180, United States
T. Christopher Massey
Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS 39180, United States
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Short summary
Emergency managers use event-based flood inundation maps (FIMs) to plan and coordinate flood emergency response. We perform a case study test of three different FIM frameworks to see if FIM differences lead to substantial differences in the location and magnitude of flood exposure and consequences. We find that the FIMs are very different spatially and that the spatial differences do produce differences in the location and magnitude of exposure and consequences.
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