Beyond these flood basins there are large areas at risk of inundation along the valleys of the hilly and mountainous small watercourses and on the flat lowlands. Both of these two types of land areas at risk are endangered by local precipitation activity when the precipitation depth exceeds a critical value (runoff capacity of the bed of the small water-course because there is no flood defence system and/or the infiltration capacity of the subsoil.
Mainly if simultaneously the runoff capacity of the excess-water canal is also insufficient along the flatlands). Present study deals with the flood prone areas of the Large River Systems only.
Source: Journal of the Hydrological Society, Vol. 81, January-February 2001
Zoltán Hankó, István Orlóci and Mária Bauer
Water Resources Research Center - VITUKI Rt.
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