Abstract
Increasing flood risk due to urbanization and climate change poses a significant challenge to societies at global scale. Hydrologic information that is required for understanding flood processes and for developing effective warning procedures is currently lacking in most parts of the world. Procedures that can combine global climate dataset from satellite and reanalysis with fast and low computational cost prediction systems, are attractive solutions for addressing flood predictions in ungauged areas. This work develops and tests a prediction framework that relies on two fundamental components. First, meteorological data from global datasets (IMERG and ERA5-Land) provide key input variables and second, ML models trained in the data-rich contiguous US, are applied in climatically similar regions in other parts of the world. Catchments in Australia, Brazil, Chile, Switzerland, and Great Britain were used as pseudo-ungauged regions for testing. Results indicate acceptable performance for both IMERG and ERA5-Land forced models with relative difference in flood peak prediction within 30% and similar overall performance to locally trained ML models. Specific climate regions for which ML models have revealed good performance include Mediterranean climates like the US West Coast, subtropical areas like the Southern Atlantic Gulf, and mild temperate regions like the Mid-Atlantic Basin. This work highlights the potential of combining global precipitation dataset with pre-trained ML models in data-rich areas, for flood prediction in ungauged areas with similar climate.
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