Flash Flood Risk Assessment in Egypt

Helmi, Ahmed M.; Zohny, Omar

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29635-3_13

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“…This flood was reported as the most significant event during the last 50 years in terms of rising rates [25]. This flooding events started in August and increased in October, with a very intense rainfall rate [25]. In Lake Nasser, the water level has reached the highest level in comparison to the previous 50 years [25].…”

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“…This flooding events started in August and increased in October, with a very intense rainfall rate [25]. In Lake Nasser, the water level has reached the highest level in comparison to the previous 50 years [25]. During the same year, particularly on November 14, heavy floods hit south Marsa Alam City in addition to Abu Ghosun village [21].…”

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“…In October 2019, floods attacked the new Cairo City inside the capital of Egypt and caused 11 deaths and significant property damage [21]. This flood was reported as the most significant event during the last 50 years in terms of rising rates [25]. This flooding events started in August and increased in October, with a very intense rainfall rate [25].…”

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“…Furthermore, in 2009, the first early flood warning system was installed in Egypt. This system contains different models for rainfall-runoff modeling, rainfall forecasting, and hydraulic modeling [25]. Egypt and its eastern desert reflect a large amount of sunshine, which averaged 3530 h in the long-term [28].…”

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“…Egypt and its eastern desert reflect a large amount of sunshine, which averaged 3530 h in the long-term [28]. The average maximum temperature reaches 35 • C during July and August, while it could decreases to 10 • C in January and February [25]. The annual humidity ranges between 71% in summer and 53% in the wintertime [25].…”

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Morphometric-hydro Characterization of the Coastal Line between El-Qussier and Marsa-Alam, Egypt: Preliminary Flood Risk Signatures

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Egypt is highly exposed to flash flood hazards, particularly in Sinai Peninsula and along the Red Sea coast, causing sudden and huge damages to constructions and huge losses in human lives during a very short time. This paper investigates the dominant characterization of morphometrical features and their relationships with the hydrological behaviors along an important strip of the western Red Sea coast. The study focuses on analyzing the October 2009 and 2019 storm events along the coastal area between EL-Qussier and Marsa Alam in order to intiate a preliminary flood risk assessment model. Morphometric features along the entire study zone provide a complete scenario of the nature of the catchments and sub-catchments development. Numerous morphometric indexes such as catchments geometry, areal indexes, linear indexes, and relief indexes were examined through processing different sets of data. Modern techniques such as remote sensing and geospatial analysis were applied to process different spatial and spectral data. The hydrological model (HEC-HMS) in the WMS software was run to delineate the catchments and sub-catchments and extract the peak flow hydrograph curves for the main catchments. The results of the water amounts and peak flow were calculated using the SCS unit hydrograph approach. The hydrological characteristics of the major catchments reveal conditions for moderate levels of flash flooding. The study ended with a number of recommendations that could minimize the negative effects of the flash flood hazards.

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Morphometric-hydro Characterization of the Coastal Line between El-Qussier and Marsa-Alam, Egypt: Preliminary Flood Risk Signatures

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Climate change associated hazards on cultural heritage in Egypt

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Abdelwahab

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Egypt is a distinctive country in terms of its rich and unique tangible cultural heritage including monuments and archaeological sites distributed across the country. Many monuments and archaeological sites are facing a variety of climate change‐associated hazards with a wide range of cross‐sectoral impacts. This research intends to identify climate change‐associated hazards on tangible cultural heritage in Egypt, highlighting the main areas of concern. For this purpose, a Geographic Information System (GIS)‐based methodology is utilized, beginning with defining a framework for hazard identification. This is followed by developing a geospatial database of tangible cultural heritage. Meanwhile, expected changes in relevant climate parameters under Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 scenario up to 2065 were profiled. Thereafter, a geospatial database of existing tangible cultural heritage in Egypt as well as current and future climate parameters are employed to examine the exposure of archaeological heritage in Egypt to various climate change‐associated hazards up to the year 2065. It was found that the tangible cultural heritage sites in Egypt, accounting for 205 sites, are exposed to specific or combined levels of climate change‐associated hazards depending on their geographic settings. In this respect, it was found that 25% of archaeological sites in Egypt are susceptible to combined high to moderate temperature ranges and humid conditions as a result of climate change up to 2065. This highlights the need for developing archaeological site conservation strategies based not only on current conservation needs, including anthropogenic and environmental stressors, but also on climate change‐associated hazards. Such a strategy needs to prioritize different cultural heritage assets actions according to their uniqueness as well as associated direct and indirect benefits.

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