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Flood forecasting system for Brahmaputra river basin 

Author Affiliations
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Year2021

Abstract

<p>Assam has always been India’s most flood prone state due to the presence of Brahmaputra river, which is very unstable in terms of its flow direction witnessing 12 major floods from 1950 to 2012. Flooding in the basin has affected around 2.75 million of people and 0.27 million hectares of agricultural land on an average causing catastrophic damage to human life and infrastructure. In this study, we analysed all the major floods across the Brahmaputra river in the past 70 years and established the dependency within discharge and atmospheric parameters. Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model was set up to simulate the flow at two stations namely Yangcun, China and Bahadurabad, Bangladesh. We  used near surface meteorological data for driving land…
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