Pankaj G and Anand S
Himalaya is the life of millions of living being and rivers are the backbone. Flash flood is frequent disaster in Himalaya. Flash flood is the result of hydro-meteorological disturbance. Most of the Himalayan districts are the victim of flash flood disaster. Almora is experiencing this disaster for a long time, but the intensity is varied. The worst year was 2013, in which 12 out of 13 districts of Uttarakhand had faced the flash flood. The paper aims to analyze the role of hydro-climatic activities in an occurrence of flash flood in Almora and its impact and mitigation. The climatic and river discharge data have been used to study this issue. The projection of water discharge has been calculated for next few years with least square method. The dependency of water discharge on rainfall has also been calculated. Mapping techniques such as Arc, GIS and ERDAS have been used for mapping the features. The mitigation measures of the flash flood have also been discussed in this paper.
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