Floods are some of the most destructive natural disasters in the world and they are projected to become more severe and frequent with climate change (IPCC, 2021). During a flood event normally dry areas are inundated until a maximum inundation extent is reached (flooding period), whereafter the water recedes back to the normal state (recession period). Capturing the dynamics of this behavior is of great importance for risk management and has led to the development of advanced hydrodynamic models. Hydrodynamic models can represent different levels of complexity and precision. For simulating the dynamics of flood inundation, two-dimensional hydrodynamic models that numerically solve the depth-averaged Navier-Stokes equations on a high-resolution grid is normally applied (Teng et al., 2017). These high-resolution hydrodynamic models are often referred to as high-fidelity models, where the fidelity refers to the model's degree of realism (Razavi et al., 2012). However,