Demonstrating floodplain uncertainty using flood probability maps

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 359-371

  Smemoe, Christopher M ^a   Nelson, E James ^b   Zundel, Alan K ^b   Miller, A Woodruff ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Flooding; Floodplain delineation; Geospatial analysis; Risk assessment; Simulation; Statistics; Surface water hydrology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE WATERS;

FLOODPLAIN DELINEATION; GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY;

FLOODS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOODS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE WATERS;

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOOD ROUTING; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HYDROLOGY; PROBABILITY; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SURFACE WATER; THEMATIC MAPPING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947648922     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2007.00028.x     Document Type: Article

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