The 100 Year Flood
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Academic
A one-hundred-year flood is a flood event that has a 1% probability of occurring in any given year.
Being able to characterize flood risks is a crucial job of civil engineers. Engineering hydrology has equal parts statistics and understanding how society treats risks.
Sometimes there’s not enough water, like in a drought or just an arid region, but we also need to be prepared for the times when there’s too much water, a flood. Rainfall and streamflow have tremendous variability and it’s the engineer’s job to characterize that so that we can make rational and intelligent decisions about how we develop the world around us.
Source: Practical Engineering
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Taxonomy
- Hydrology
- Flood Modeling
- Hydrology
- Flood management
- Flood damage
- Flood prediction
- Hydrology Cycle
- Flood