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Stakeholder Consultation, Site Prioritization, and Flood Model Development for Index-based Flood Insurance in Southern Province, Zambia - Zambia

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By Yakob Umer, Mirriam Makungwe, Inga Jacobs Mata
| Businessfortnight
The Index-based flood insurance (IBFI) is one of the outputs of the research under the initiative on Diversification in East and South Africa (UU), Work Package two (WP2): Bundling climate insurance solutions focusing on a case study in districts in Southern part of Zambia.
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Assessing the Impact of the Urban Landscape on Extreme Rainfall Characteristics Triggering Flood Hazards

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By Janneke Ettema, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Yakob Umer, Victor Jetten
| MDPI
1. Introduction Numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, such as Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF), are nowadays used for flood hazard modeling and forecasting in urban areas [1,2]. However, simulating the spatial–temporal rainfall characteristics and structures that trigger flood hazards is challenging and complex to predict. The mechanisms affecting rainfall are affected by many factors: the quality of initial and boundary conditions, domain set, and parametrization schemes in model [3].
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