Challenges in flood modeling over data-scarce regions: how to exploit globally available soil moisture products to estimate antecedent soil wetness conditions in Morocco

El Mahdi El Khalki , Yves Tramblay (1) , Christian Massari , Luca Brocca , Vincent Simonneaux (2) , Simon Gascoin (2) , Mohamed El Mehdi Saidi

1 HSM - Hydrosciences Montpellier
2 CESBIO - Centre d'études spatiales de la biosphère

The Mediterranean region is characterized by intense rainfall events giving rise to devastating floods. In Maghreb countries such as Morocco, there is a strong need for forecasting systems to reduce the impacts of floods.

Domaines: Interfaces continentales, environnement

El Mahdi El Khalki, Yves Tramblay, Christian Massari, Luca Brocca, Vincent Simonneaux, et al.. Challenges in flood modeling over data-scarce regions: how to exploit globally available soil moisture products to estimate antecedent soil wetness conditions in Morocco. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2020, 20, pp.2591 - 2607. ⟨10.5194/nhess-20-2591-2020⟩. ⟨hal-02997088⟩