Grasping the unavoidable subjectivity in calibration of flood inundation models: A vulnerability weighted approach

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 333, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 275-287

  Pappenberger, Florian ^a,d   Beven, Keith ^a   Frodsham, Kevin ^b   Romanowicz, Renata ^a   Matgen, Patrick ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b JBA CONSULTING   (United Kingdom)

^c LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flood hazard; Flood inundation model; Flood risk; GLUE; LISFLOOD FP; Raster map comparison; Utility function

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FLOOD HAZARD; FLOOD INUNDATION MODEL; FLOOD RISK; RASTER MAP COMPARISON; UTILITY FUNCTION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

CALIBRATION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CALIBRATION; DECISION ANALYSIS; DIGITAL MAP; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOODING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 33846144757     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.08.017     Document Type: Article

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