Flood Warning Systems Approach to Damage Analysis Indisaster Management (Case Study: Mianeh-City)

Abstract

Oneof the natural disasters that annually causes a lot of damage to people andsociety, is flood.Timely flood warning system to ensure that finalbeneficiaries forecasting system, an appropriate warning is received at theappropriate time and the appropriate response to protect and minimize thedamage done to their finances.In this regard, Gharanghoochay river catchment,causing massive floods in Mianeh city has been selected to implement a floodwarning system. In this paper, hydrological modeling for the basin usingHEC-HMS software was obtained and for the entire sub- basin, Muskingum dynamicsequations have been used. The flood located in east Azerbaijan province, floods2004.06.03 calibrate the model rainfall - runoff flood warning was used.Continuity check with showers and amount of time before the alarm warningsignal for each station was calculated. After pre-determined according toabundance of caution showers Hashtrood station, flood warning systems forflooding areas within the mat-o-flood plan has been designed to suit thethreshold. Under-taking damage riverbank villages and history of naturaldisasters in the region and assess the damages incurred to the Mianeh city,emergency action guidelines was prepared.

Keywords

• flooding
• model of rainfall – runoff
• warning threshold
• flood warning
• emergency action plan