compound flooding
Defined in 1 place of the United States Code.
The term "compound flooding" means a flooding event in which two or more flood drivers, such as coastal storm surge-driven flooding and inland rainfall-driven flooding, occur simultaneously or in close succession and the potential adverse effects of the combined flood drivers may be greater than that of the individual flood driver components.
Source
- 2024–present33 U.S.C. § 2282hNavigation and Navigable Waters · Economic, hydraulic, and hydrologic modeling · in this section