As climate change continues to intensify, accurate and efficient flood prediction is becoming more and more of a hot issue. This Special Session will address the new schemes of flood disaster assessment and strategies of risk management, including providing integrated catchment/urban models involving flood disaster assessment approaches and risk reduction strategies, methods that help update forecasts in real-time to reduce bias and increase accuracy, and case study demonstrations of their use. 

The Organiser of this Special Session is Prof. Dong Wang, School of Earth Science and Engineering of Nanjing University. The following experts are invited to participate in the session:

Prof. Xin Yu, Yellow River Conservancy Commission, MWR;

Prof. Pan Liu, Wuhan University;

Prof. Jiahong Liu, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research;

Prof. Binquan Li, Hohai University;

Prof. Di Long, Tsinghua University.