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GIS for Dam-Break Flooding. Study Area: Bicaz-Izvorul Muntelui (Romania)

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The objective of this chapter is to present a GIS-based application to visualise and analyse downstream flooding, following a hypothetical Bicaz dam failure on the Bistrita River, Romania. The assumptions of the dam failure scenario are: 50 % breach of the dam surface coupled with a 10,000-year flood. The inundation maps and the dam break flood wave characteristics (depth, velocity, and travel time) are obtained through numerical simulations using a hydraulic model (HEC-RAS) and the best available topographic data. Analysis of flood inundation maps by using GIS tools is crucial for risk assessment and for the emergency preparedness to protect against the loss of life and property damage. Vulnerability maps resulting from a multicriteria analysis are used to explore the potentially affected areas, and a loss analysis (as a simplified quantitative risk analysis) is performed on the physical environment for the city of Bacău, as examples of GIS graphical capabilities.

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  1. Hydraulics, Hydraulic Machinery and Environmental Engineering Department, University Politechnica of Bucharest, București, Romania

    Daniela Elena Gogoaşe Nistoran

  2. Department of Geomorphology-Pedology-Geomatics, Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, Nicolae Balcescu 1, Sector 1, 10041, Bucharest, Romania

    Diana A. Gheorghe Popovici & Iuliana Armaş

  3. Hidroelectrica, Bistriţa Headquarters, Piatra Neamţ, Romania

    Brînduşa Ana Craia Savin

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Gogoaşe Nistoran, D.E., Gheorghe Popovici, D.A., Savin, B.A.C., Armaş, I. (2016). GIS for Dam-Break Flooding. Study Area: Bicaz-Izvorul Muntelui (Romania). In: Boştenaru Dan, M., Crăciun, C. (eds) Space and Time Visualisation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24942-1_15

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