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Flood Inundation Modelling and Flood Risk analysis
Update on recent flooding in KZN and Eastern Cape using satellite
Flood Inundation Modelling and Flood Risk analysis
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A new flood chronology for KwaZulu-Natal (1836-2022): the April 2022
We document 53 significant flood events from 1850-1899 (average ~1.1 per annum) and 210 from 1900-2022 (average ~1.7 per annum). Within the limits of our data, we suggest that the frequency of flooding in Durban has likely doubled over the last century.
Assessment and prediction of flood hazards using standardized
In July 2016, extreme rainfall caused flash floods, inland flood, and storm surge in Durban with flood damage running into millions of Rands leaving seven dead and thousands displaced (Davis, 2016). Flooding in Durban has continued to be more severe with every year. ... The value of historical data in flood risk analysis is longer-term trends ...
PDF The 2022 Durban floods were the most catastrophic yet recorded in
The disastrous flood that hit Durban in April 2022 was the most catastrophic natural disaster yet recorded in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in collective terms of lives lost, homes and infrastructure ...
A new flood chronology for KwaZulu-Natal (1836-2022): the April 2022
In April 2022, flooding and associated geohazards caused major loss of life and extensive damage in the greater Durban region and large areas of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) coastal zone. Heavy rainfall that triggered the flooding and mass movement events
Analysis of the perceptions of flood and effect of adoption of
South Africa experienced severe flooding and landslides in April 2022 in Durban caused by heavy rainfall resulting in deaths, displacement of people, and destruction of infrastructure in the eastern part of the country (World Health Organization, 2022). The flood destroyed homes in informal settlements, schools, bridges, and roads in the ...
A new flood chronology for KwaZulu-Natal (1836-2022 ...
We document 53 significant flood events from 1850-1899 (average ~1.1 per annum) and 210 from 1900-2022 (average ~1.7 per annum). Within the limits of our data, we suggest that the frequency of ...
Satellite imagery quantifying flood damage in Durban, KZN
The data provided by Maxar, Airbus, Radarsat Constellation, Copernicus, and a number of other data providers through the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters, is being analysed by SANSA to map the extent of damage to property and infrastructure in flood affected areas. The floods have caused damage in large parts of Kwazulu-Natal.
Landslide and flash floods impact analysis West of Durban, eThekwini
Landslide and flash floods impact analysis West of Durban, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal Provincce, UNOSAT code: FL20220418ZAF This map illustrates satellite-detected landslides/mudflow West of Durban City, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa as observed from a WorldView-3 imagery ...
Durban floods News, Research and Analysis
South African floods wreaked havoc because people are forced to live in disaster prone areas. Hope Magidimisha-Chipungu, University of KwaZulu-Natal. A quarter of South Africans in cities are ...
KZN floods: Understand the scale, science and impact of the disaster
Photos show the scale and impact of the recent flooding in and around Durban. A washed up van close to Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal on 13 April 2022 following one of the deadliest floods in the province ...
A new flood chronology for KwaZulu-Natal (1836-2022): the April 2022
Semantic Scholar extracted view of "A new flood chronology for KwaZulu-Natal (1836-2022): the April 2022 Durban floods in historical context" by S. Grab et al. ... A Critical Analysis of the Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and Another v Minister of Energy and Others 65662/16 (2017) Case and the Drive for Concrete Climate Practices ...
A Critical Analysis of the Impacts of and Responses to the April-Ma
A Critical Analysis of the Impacts of and Responses to the April-May 2022 Floods in KwaZulu-Natal. Download pdf. This paper is an analysis of the April-May 2022 floods that struck the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, centred in the City of eThekwini, which led to the loss of lives and livelihoods, displacement of people, extensive damage to ...
Durban floods: Is it a consequence of climate change?
The weather system which triggered the floods led to in excess of 300mm of rainfall being dumped over a 24-hour period on 11 April. That's a lot more than compared with previous episodes of ...
ANALYSIS
The lessons learnt in the Palmiet Catchment during the 2019 and 2022 flooding in Durban, have been invaluable and provide opportunities for scaling up climate adaptation responses that make a difference, writes Catherine Sutherland. ... provided evidence which compensated for the temporary lack of scientific data. READ | ANALYSIS: Durban floods ...
Impacts of Floods and Data Availability, Data Quality and Data ...
When observed flow data are available at or close to the site of interest, practitioners in South Africa generally estimate design floods by performing a frequency analysis of gauged flow data. The confidence in the estimated design flood is dependent on the length of record and quality of the data. As noted by Pitman (2011) and Pegram (2016), th
Disaster management 'deeds' in the context of April 2022 KwaZulu-Natal
The primary aim of the analysis is to establish how deeds performed by various protagonists impacted the overall outcomes of disaster management prior to, during, and following the April 2022 KZN floods disaster. The analysis also involved mapping out the nature of actor-network associations at every phase of the disaster management processes ...
The 2022 Durban floods were the most catastro
In April 2022, the KZN coastal zone, including the greater Durban area and South Coast, received more than 300mm of rain in 24 hours. This led to calamitous flooding, with 459 people losing their ...
PDF Climate change exacerbated rainfall causing devastating flooding in
2 Data and methods 2.1 Observational data Daily rainfall observations for 194 stations in the study domain were made available by South African Weather Service (SAWS1). However, only around 70 stations are sufficiently gap-free and long (1950-2022) as required for assessing trends. Due to the time-sensitive nature of this study, we shortlist 5
South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal Floods
Durban Easter Floods 2019: 18-22 April 2019. There were over 85 fatalities in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, and economic losses cost the KwaZulu-Natal Government USD $75 million and cost the Disaster Management Centre USD $45 million (WillisRe, 2019; France24, 2022; News24, 2019). The 2019 Durban Easter Floods were also caused by heavy rains ...
South Africa: Floods in KwaZulu Natal
A. Situation analysis Description of the disaster On 11 April 2022, a weather system triggered floods in the Kwa Zulu Natal (KZN) province leading to an excess of 300mm of rainfall over a 24-hour ...
'Human factors', not just the climate crisis, aggravated KZN floods
For example, some of the highest rainfall intensities recorded in Durban in 2022 were 51mm/h at Shongweni and 31mm/h at Cato Ridge, whereas extrapolation from historic records suggested Durban ...
Durban floods: 'I got no house, I got nothing'
The death toll in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal has reached more than 250, after devastating floods wreaked havoc in the area. Volunteers in Durban are helping clear the debris and ...
A rapid geospatial analysis of the flood impacts on crops in KwaZulu
An analysis to assess the impacts of floods on cropland in KwaZulu-Natal province was performed using existing data, GIS and remote sensing. The crop mask was derived from the South African ...
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COMMENTS
We document 53 significant flood events from 1850-1899 (average ~1.1 per annum) and 210 from 1900-2022 (average ~1.7 per annum). Within the limits of our data, we suggest that the frequency of flooding in Durban has likely doubled over the last century.
In July 2016, extreme rainfall caused flash floods, inland flood, and storm surge in Durban with flood damage running into millions of Rands leaving seven dead and thousands displaced (Davis, 2016). Flooding in Durban has continued to be more severe with every year. ... The value of historical data in flood risk analysis is longer-term trends ...
The disastrous flood that hit Durban in April 2022 was the most catastrophic natural disaster yet recorded in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in collective terms of lives lost, homes and infrastructure ...
In April 2022, flooding and associated geohazards caused major loss of life and extensive damage in the greater Durban region and large areas of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) coastal zone. Heavy rainfall that triggered the flooding and mass movement events
South Africa experienced severe flooding and landslides in April 2022 in Durban caused by heavy rainfall resulting in deaths, displacement of people, and destruction of infrastructure in the eastern part of the country (World Health Organization, 2022). The flood destroyed homes in informal settlements, schools, bridges, and roads in the ...
We document 53 significant flood events from 1850-1899 (average ~1.1 per annum) and 210 from 1900-2022 (average ~1.7 per annum). Within the limits of our data, we suggest that the frequency of ...
The data provided by Maxar, Airbus, Radarsat Constellation, Copernicus, and a number of other data providers through the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters, is being analysed by SANSA to map the extent of damage to property and infrastructure in flood affected areas. The floods have caused damage in large parts of Kwazulu-Natal.
Landslide and flash floods impact analysis West of Durban, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal Provincce, UNOSAT code: FL20220418ZAF This map illustrates satellite-detected landslides/mudflow West of Durban City, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa as observed from a WorldView-3 imagery ...
South African floods wreaked havoc because people are forced to live in disaster prone areas. Hope Magidimisha-Chipungu, University of KwaZulu-Natal. A quarter of South Africans in cities are ...
Photos show the scale and impact of the recent flooding in and around Durban. A washed up van close to Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal on 13 April 2022 following one of the deadliest floods in the province ...
Semantic Scholar extracted view of "A new flood chronology for KwaZulu-Natal (1836-2022): the April 2022 Durban floods in historical context" by S. Grab et al. ... A Critical Analysis of the Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and Another v Minister of Energy and Others 65662/16 (2017) Case and the Drive for Concrete Climate Practices ...
A Critical Analysis of the Impacts of and Responses to the April-May 2022 Floods in KwaZulu-Natal. Download pdf. This paper is an analysis of the April-May 2022 floods that struck the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, centred in the City of eThekwini, which led to the loss of lives and livelihoods, displacement of people, extensive damage to ...
The weather system which triggered the floods led to in excess of 300mm of rainfall being dumped over a 24-hour period on 11 April. That's a lot more than compared with previous episodes of ...
The lessons learnt in the Palmiet Catchment during the 2019 and 2022 flooding in Durban, have been invaluable and provide opportunities for scaling up climate adaptation responses that make a difference, writes Catherine Sutherland. ... provided evidence which compensated for the temporary lack of scientific data. READ | ANALYSIS: Durban floods ...
When observed flow data are available at or close to the site of interest, practitioners in South Africa generally estimate design floods by performing a frequency analysis of gauged flow data. The confidence in the estimated design flood is dependent on the length of record and quality of the data. As noted by Pitman (2011) and Pegram (2016), th
The primary aim of the analysis is to establish how deeds performed by various protagonists impacted the overall outcomes of disaster management prior to, during, and following the April 2022 KZN floods disaster. The analysis also involved mapping out the nature of actor-network associations at every phase of the disaster management processes ...
In April 2022, the KZN coastal zone, including the greater Durban area and South Coast, received more than 300mm of rain in 24 hours. This led to calamitous flooding, with 459 people losing their ...
2 Data and methods 2.1 Observational data Daily rainfall observations for 194 stations in the study domain were made available by South African Weather Service (SAWS1). However, only around 70 stations are sufficiently gap-free and long (1950-2022) as required for assessing trends. Due to the time-sensitive nature of this study, we shortlist 5
Durban Easter Floods 2019: 18-22 April 2019. There were over 85 fatalities in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, and economic losses cost the KwaZulu-Natal Government USD $75 million and cost the Disaster Management Centre USD $45 million (WillisRe, 2019; France24, 2022; News24, 2019). The 2019 Durban Easter Floods were also caused by heavy rains ...
A. Situation analysis Description of the disaster On 11 April 2022, a weather system triggered floods in the Kwa Zulu Natal (KZN) province leading to an excess of 300mm of rainfall over a 24-hour ...
For example, some of the highest rainfall intensities recorded in Durban in 2022 were 51mm/h at Shongweni and 31mm/h at Cato Ridge, whereas extrapolation from historic records suggested Durban ...
The death toll in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal has reached more than 250, after devastating floods wreaked havoc in the area. Volunteers in Durban are helping clear the debris and ...
An analysis to assess the impacts of floods on cropland in KwaZulu-Natal province was performed using existing data, GIS and remote sensing. The crop mask was derived from the South African ...