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Flood is the most common and widespread fluvial hazard. Flood in Erstwhile Jalpaiguri (now Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar) district occurs almost every year with unfailing regularity but the geographical area affected by flood varies largely from one year to another. About 2000 km2area of land are prone to floods in Jalpaiguri-Alipurduar district which is about 32% of the land area of the district. Throughout the decade the occurrence of the flood shows a positive increase [Y = 22.29x + 460.15] and also insignificant R2 = 0.18). In spite of various engineering river training method, the misery of flood still continues. In the present paper, the author tried to analyse the detailed temporal variation of flood scenario of the district along with hypothesis testing whether the flood event is reducing in the present context and it is an annual event in the district.
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Das, M. (2022). An Appraisal of Spatio—Temporal Occurrence of Fluvial Hazard: Case Study of Flood in the Districts of Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar (West Bengal, India). In: Islam, A., Das, P., Ghosh, S., Mukhopadhyay, A., Das Gupta, A., Kumar Singh, A. (eds) Fluvial Systems in the Anthropocene. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11181-5_14
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