Three Recent Extreme Floods in Bangladesh: A Hydro-Meteorological Analysis

摘要: Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to floods due its geographical location at the deltas of Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna (GBM) rivers. About 92.5 per cent area three basins lies outside boundaries country. More than 80 annual precipitation occurs in monsoon period between June September. The hydro-meteorological characteristics river are unique they often cause large extremely Bangladesh. It possible that these could inundate 70 country physical damage be very serious for economy with low gross domestic product (GDP). In 1987, 1988 1998, experienced extreme floods, leaving trails devastation human misery. this article it demonstrated differed terms magnitude, extent, depth duration. external internal dynamics were also different.