End-to-end flood risk assessment: A coupled model cascade with uncertainty estimation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  McMillan, Hilary K ^a   Brasington, James ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION;

FLOODS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOODS; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD FORECASTING; MITIGATION; PROVENANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 43049085886     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR005995     Document Type: Article

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