Reconstruction Assessment of the Paleo-inundation Condition in the Nile River Basin Part I: Basic Process

Abstract

Paleo-inundation condition assessment is the study of the historical inundation under the past flood events which occurred prior to direct measurement of hydrologic parameters using modern methods. The ultimate objectives of this study are to (1) estimate paleo-inundation under the extreme floods using historical literature and incomplete data records, and (2) estimate extreme flood events that may occur in the future by combining estimated paleo-floods with systematically recorded floods by using the statistical and modelling methods. This paper focuses on showing an application example for estimating the historical inundation conditions under the paleo-floods using modern technologies such as digitized land use maps, a distributed hydrological model and high-speed computers at the river basin scale.