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Overview

Eric Gaume is affiliated with Université Gustave Eiffel in France and has a research focus primarily in Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Transportation, and Epidemiology.

Their principal research topics cover areas such as Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Climate variability and models, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Eric Gaume has contributed to publications in multiple venues. The most frequent include:

  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Journal of Flood Risk Management
  • La Houille Blanche
  • LHB
  • Water Resources Research

Among their notable recent papers are:

  • Performance of automated methods for flash flood inundation mapping: a comparison of a digital terrain model (DTM) filling and two hydrodynamic methods, 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Tempête Alex du 2 octobre 2020 dans les Alpes-Maritimes: une contribution de la communauté scientifique à l'estimation des débits de pointe des crues, 2022, LHB
  • Extreme Sea Level Estimation Combining Systematic Observed Skew Surges and Historical Record Sea Levels, 2022, Water Resources Research
  • Technical note: Comparing three different methods for allocating river points to coarse-resolution hydrological modelling grid cells, 2024, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • A methodological framework for the evaluation of short-range flash-flood hydrometeorological forecasts at the event scale, 2023, Natural hazards and earth system sciences

Frequent co-authors working with Eric Gaume include:

  • Olivier Payrastre
  • P Nicolle
  • Juliette Godet
  • Pierre Javelle
  • Frédéric Pons

Best Publications

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • A compilation of data on European flash floods

    Eric Gaume;Valerie Bain;Pietro Bernardara;Olivier Newinger

  • Characterisation of selected extreme flash floods in Europe and implications for flood risk management

    L. Marchi;M. Borga;E. Preciso;Eric Gaume

  • The Catastrophic Flash-Flood Event of 8–9 September 2002 in the Gard Region, France: A First Case Study for the Cévennes–Vivarais Mediterranean Hydrometeorological Observatory

    G. Delrieu;John Nicol;E. Yates;P.E. Kirstetter

  • Flash flood warning based on rainfall thresholds and soil moisture conditions: An assessment for gauged and ungauged basins

    Daniele Norbiato;Marco Borga;Silvia Degli Esposti;Eric Gaume

  • Hydrological analysis of the river Aude, France, flash flood on 12 and 13 November 1999

    Eric Gaume;Marc Livet;Michel Desbordes;Jean-Pierre Villeneuve

  • Surveying flash floods: gauging the ungauged extremes

    Marco Borga;Eric Gaume;Jean Dominique Creutin;Lorenzo Marchi

  • Post‐flood field investigations in upland catchments after major flash floods: proposal of a methodology and illustrations

    Eric Gaume;M. Borga

  • Seasonal characteristics of flood regimes across the Alpine-Carpathian range.

    J. Parajka;S. Kohnova;G. Balint;M. Barbuc

  • Bayesian MCMC approach to regional flood frequency analyses involving extraordinary flood events at ungauged sites

    Eric Gaume;L. Gaal;A. Viglione;J. Szolgay

  • Uncertainties on mean areal precipitation: assessment and impact on streamflow simulations

    L. Moulin;E. Gaume;Charles Obled

  • Reducing the uncertainty in indirect estimates of extreme flash flood discharges

    Darren Lumbroso;Darren Lumbroso;Eric Gaume

  • Comprehensive post-event survey of a flash flood in Western Slovenia: observation strategy and lessons learned

    Lorenzo Marchi;Marco Borga;Emanuele Preciso;Marco Sangati

  • Usefulness of historical information for flood frequency analyses: Developments based on a case study

    Olivier Payrastre;Eric Gaume;Hervé Andrieu

  • Uncertainty assessment and analysis of the calibrated parameter values of an urban storm water quality model

    Eric Gaume;Jean-Pierre Villeneuve;Michel Desbordes

  • Storm water quality modelling, an ambitious objective?

    M. Ahyerre;G. Chebbo;B. Tassin;E. Gaume

  • Flood frequency analysis using historical data: accounting for random and systematic errors

    Luc Neppel;Benjamin Renard;Michel Lang;Pierre Alain Ayral

  • Integrated high-resolution dataset of high-intensity European and Mediterranean flash floods

    William Amponsah;William Amponsah;Pierre-Alain Ayral;Brice Boudevillain;Christophe Bouvier

  • Spatially distributed flood forecasting in flash flood prone areas: Application to road network supervision in Southern France

    Jean Philippe Naulin;Olivier Payrastre;Eric Gaume

  • Hydrological analysis of a flash flood across a climatic and geologic gradient: The September 18, 2007 event in Western Slovenia

    Francesco Zanon;Marco Borga;Davide Zoccatelli;Lorenzo Marchi

  • Distributed hydrologic and hydraulic modelling with radar rainfall input: Reconstruction of the 8–9 September 2002 catastrophic flood event in the Gard region, France

    Laurent Bonnifait;Guy Delrieu;Matthieu Le Lay;Brice Boudevillain

  • Bayesian approach for the calibration of models: application to an urban stormwater pollution model.

    A. Kanso;Marie-Christine Gromaire;E. Gaume;Bruno Tassin

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Borga
Marco Borga University of Padua
Lorenzo Marchi
Lorenzo Marchi National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Guy Delrieu
Guy Delrieu Grenoble Alpes University
Alberto Viglione
Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin
Sandrine Anquetin
Sandrine Anquetin Grenoble Alpes University
Véronique Ducrocq
Véronique Ducrocq Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Charles Perrin
Charles Perrin University of Paris-Saclay
Ghassan Chebbo
Ghassan Chebbo École des Ponts ParisTech

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