5 results on '"Saint-Martin, Clotilde"'
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2. Prise en compte des vulnérabilités territoriales dans l'avertissement des crues rapides : vers une amélioration de la méthode AIGA
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SAINT-MARTIN, Clotilde, Gouvernance, Risque, Environnement, Développement (GRED), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III, and Freddy Vinet
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Crue soudaine ,Méditerranée ,Damage ,Flash flood ,Aiga ,Dommages ,[SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography ,Mediterranean ,Vulnérabilité territoriale ,Territorial vulnerability - Abstract
Anticipating floods is a major challenge for communities at risk of flooding as the entire warning system – responsible for the safety of people and goods - relies on this anticipation. There is an existing monitoring system “Vigicrues” for flood damage for a fifth of the river network in France. But for four-fifths of this network, made of small rivers, no monitoring is available. Yet those rivers are the most affected by flash floods which especially require anticipation for crisis management purposes. This is why at the beginning of 2017, the Vigicrues system for flood monitoring has been completed with a new flood warning system called Vigicrues Flash. This system provides automatic information in real-time on flood severity of ungauged basins for 10 000 French communities.Even if this new system is a real innovation for communities with no monitoring at all, the AIGA method which is used in Vigicrues-Flash has some limits. The first one is that the warnings are only based on the assessment of flood severity. But estimating flood severity is not enough to issue efficient flood warnings. To be able to do so, taking into account potential flood losses is essential. The main goal of this work is to enable an anticipated estimation of flood related damage, especially for ungauged basins. We offer a method to assess the risk of flood related damage based on flood severity assessed by the AIGA method and a territorial vulnerability assessment. This last one has been built on a bottom-up approach developed with crisis managers. Putting together this data has enabled a first assessment of the risk of flood risk damage as a dynamic risk index.By adjusting performance testing used in the meteorology field, we have been able to evaluate our risk index and to compare the results with the AIGA method. In order to do so, we have used existing damage data (CATNAT from the GASPAR database) as well as a specific multisource database (using notably social media data) which has been put together as part of this study (DamaGIS). The evaluation process has been tested for 12 communities in the Alpes-Maritimes, 69 in the Gard and 28 in the Var department. Two types of evaluation have been performed: a first comprehensive one continuously with CATNAT data on the 1988-2016 period; and another one per flood event at a finer scale.Our results show that moving from hazard assessment to risk assessment has significantly increased the relevance of the warnings and mostly at a smaller scale than the community one. Though, there is a better detection of flood related damage as the false alarm rate has been significantly reduced. This PhD work offers promising prospects to improve the current French warning system for floods and enable a more efficient emergency response.; Anticiper les inondations constitue un enjeu majeur pour les communes exposées aux crues car c’est sur cette anticipation que repose l’ensemble de la chaîne d’alerte, garante de la sécurité des personnes et des biens. Si un système de suivi du risque de dommages liés aux crues est disponible pour un cinquième du réseau hydrographique français, les petits cours d’eau composant les quatre cinquièmes restants ne font pas partie du dispositif de suivi temps réel du ministère en charge de l’écologie, appelé « Vigicrues ». Or il s’agit également des cours d’eau les plus concernés par le phénomène de crues rapides, pour lesquelles l’anticipation joue un rôle crucial en gestion de crise. Voilà pourquoi début 2017, Vigicrues a été complété par un service automatique d'avertissement des crues appelé Vigicrues Flash. Ce système permet de fournir en temps réel une information sur l’intensité de la crue des cours d’eau pour 10 000 communes françaises.Même si ce nouveau service constitue un réel progrès pour les communes jusqu’alors dépourvues de système d’anticipation, la méthode AIGA qui constitue le cœur de Vigicrues Flash possède certaines limites. L’une d’entre elles, est le fait que la méthode n’avertit que sur le niveau de rareté de la crue, sans tenir compte des enjeux présents. Or, pour générer un avertissement efficace, il est nécessaire de prendre en compte les conséquences potentielles de cette crue. Cette thèse a donc pour but de permettre l’estimation anticipée des dommages liés aux crues rapides, en particulier sur les bassins non jaugés. Pour cela, nous proposons une méthode d’estimation du risque de dommages fondée d’une part sur la qualification de l’intensité de l’aléa crue par la méthode AIGA et d’autre part sur la prise en compte de la vulnérabilité du territoire. Cette dernière a été construite à partir d’une approche bottom-up innovante, directement auprès de gestionnaires du risque. Le croisement de ces deux types d’informations a permis de fournir une première caractérisation du risque de dommages liés aux inondations sous la forme d’un indice de risque dynamique.En adaptant des tests de performances issus de la météorologie, nous avons pu évaluer notre indice par rapport à la méthode AIGA seule. Des informations sur les dommages déjà existantes (les arrêtés « CATNAT » issus de la BD GASPAR) ou spécifiquement collectées (la BD DamaGIS constituée pour cette thèse à partir d’informations présentes notamment sur les réseaux sociaux) constituent nos données de validation. Notre évaluation a porté sur 12 communes dans les Alpes-Maritimes, 69 dans le Gard et 28 dans le Var, et s’est faite de deux manières complémentaires : d’une part une évaluation en continue et exhaustive à partir des arrêtes CATNAT pris pour nos communes sur toute la période 1998-2016 ; et d’autre part une évaluation événementielle, mais à l’échelle infra-communale.Nos résultats montrent que le passage de la caractérisation de l’aléa à celle du risque améliore nettement la pertinence des avertissements émis, surtout à l’échelle infra-communale. Les dommages y sont mieux détectés, avec un taux moindre de fausse alertes. Cette thèse ouvre donc de réelles perspectives d’amélioration de la chaîne de l’alerte actuelle, permettant de mieux organiser la réponse des services de secours et de gestion de crise face à l’annonce de dommages potentiels liés aux crues rapides.
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3. Setting up a French national flash flood warning system for ungauged catchments based on the AIGA method
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Javelle Pierre, Organde Didier, Demargne Julie, Saint-Martin Clotilde, de Saint-Aubin Céline, Garandeau Léa, and Janet Bruno
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Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 - Abstract
Occurring at small temporal and spatial scales, flash floods (FF) can cause severe economic damages and human losses. To better anticipate such events and mitigate their impacts, the French Ministry in charge of Ecology has decided to set up a national FF warning system over the French territory. This automated system will be run by the SCHAPI, the French national service in charge of flood forecasting, providing warnings for fast-responding ungauged catchments (area ranging from ~10 to ~1000 km2). It will therefore be complementary to the SCHAPI’s national “vigilance” system which concerns only gauged catchments. The FF warning system to be implemented in 2017 will be based on a discharge-threshold flood warning method called AIGA (Javelle et al. 2014). This method has been experimented in real time in the south of France in the RHYTMME project (http://rhytmme.irstea.fr). It consists in comparing discharges generated by a simple conceptual hourly hydrologic model run at a 1-km2 resolution to reference flood quantiles of different (e.g., 2-, 10- and 50-year) return periods. Therefore the system characterizes in real time the severity of ongoing events by the range of the return period estimated by AIGA at any point along the river network. The hydrologic model ingests operational rainfall radar-gauge products from Météo-France and takes into account the baseflow and the initial soil humidity conditions to better estimate the basin response to rainfall inputs. To meet the requirements of the future FF warning system, the AIGA method has been extended to the whole French territory (except Corsica and overseas French territories). The calibration, regionalization and validation procedures of the hydrologic model were carried out using data for ~700 hydrometric stations from the 2002-2015 period. Performance of the warning system was evaluated with various contingency criteria (e.g., probability of detection and success rate). Furthermore, specific flood events were analysed in more details, by comparing warnings issued for exceeding different critical flood quantiles and their associated timing with field observations. The performance results show that the proposed FF warning system is useful, especially for ungauged sites. The analysis also points out the need to account for the uncertainties in the precipitation inputs and the hydrological modelling, as well as include precipitation forecasts to improve the effective warning lead time.
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- 2016
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4. Flashflood-related mortality in southern France: first results from a new database
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Vinet Freddy, Boissier Laurent, and Saint-Martin Clotilde
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Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 - Abstract
Over the last 25 years, flash floods in the South of France have killed almost 250 people. The protection of prone populations is a priority for the French government. It is also a goal of the 2007 European flood directive. However, no accurate database exists gathering the fatalities due to floods in France. Fatalities are supposed to be rare and hazardous, mainly due to individual behaviour. A Ph. D. work has initiated the building of a database gathering a detailed analysis of the circumstances of death and the profiles of the deceased (age, gender…). The study area covers the French Mediterranean departments prone to flash floods over the period 1988-2015. This presentation details the main features of the sample, 244 fatalities collected through newspapers completed with field surveys near police services and municipalities. The sample is broken down between huge events that account for two thirds of the fatalities and “small” events (34 % of the fatalities). Deaths at home account for 35 % of the total number of fatalities, mainly during huge events. 30 % of fatalities are related to vehicles. The last part of the work explains the relations between fatalities and prevention and how better knowledge of flood-related deaths can help to improve flood prevention. The given example shows the relationship between flood forecasting and fatalities. Half of the deaths took place in a small watershed (
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- 2016
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5. Assessing the exposure to floods to estimate the risk of flood-related damage in French Mediterranean basins
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Saint-Martin Clotilde, Fouchier Catherine, Javelle Pierre, Douvinet Johnny, and Vinet Freddy
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Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 - Abstract
The dreadful floods of 1999, 2002 and 2003 in South of France have alerted public opinion on the need for a more efficient and a further generalized national flood-forecasting system. This is why in 2003 Irstea and Meteo-France have implemented a new warning method for flash floods, including on small watersheds, using radar rainfall data in real-time: the AIGA method. This modelling method currently provides real-time information on the magnitude of floods, but doesn’t take into account the elements at risk surrounding the river streams. Its benefit for crisis management is therefore limited as it doesn’t give information on the actual flood risk. To improve the relevance of the AIGA method, this paper shows the benefits of the combination of hydrological warnings with an exposure index, to be able to assess the risk of flood-related damage in real time. To complete this aim, this work presents an innovative and easily reproducible method to evaluate exposure to floods over large areas with simple land-use data. For validation purpose, a damage database has been implemented to test the relevance of both AIGA warnings and exposure levels. A case study on the floods of the 3rd October 2015 is presented to test the effectiveness of the combination of hazard and exposure to assess the risk of flood-related damage. This combination seems to give an accurate overview of the streams at risk, where the most important amount of damage has been observed after the flood.
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- 2016
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