River flooding in a changing climate: rainfall-discharge trends, controlling factors, and susceptibility mapping for the Mahi catchment, Western India

• Published in: Natural hazards (Dordrecht) Vol. 109; no. 3; pp. 2439 - 2459
• Main Authors: Das, Sumit, Scaringi, Gianvito
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Analytic hierarchy process; Atmospheric precipitations; Boulders; Catchment areas; Catchments; Civil Engineering; Climate; Climate change; Climate trends; Discharge; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Environmental Management; Flood mapping; Flooding; Floods; Geomorphology; Geophysics/Geodesy; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Hydrogeology; Local economy; Mapping; Natural Hazards; Original Paper; Precipitation; Rain; Rainfall; Rivers; Stream discharge; Stream flow; Summer monsoon; Trends; Watersheds; India; Climate change; Mahi; Analytical hierarchy process; Unit stream power; Flood susceptibility; Trend analysis

The Mahi—one of the major rivers in Western India—is subject to frequent major flooding, which severely affects the local economy and infrastructure. Little has been done, however, to assess the flood patterns and severity along its course. Here, the Mann–Kendall and Pettitt tests are used to identi...