Uncertainty and equifinality in calibrating distributed roughness coefficients in a flood propagation model with limited data

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 349-365

  Aronica, G ^a   Hankin, B ^b   Beven, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flood inundation models; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy rules; Likelihood; Parameter calibration; Roughness coefficient

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUZZY SETS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

FLOOD INUNDATION MODELS; FUZZY RULES; ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FLOOD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 0344938261     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1708(98)00017-7     Document Type: Article

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