Watershed urbanization and changing flood behavior across the Los Angeles metropolitan region

Natural Hazards

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-57

  Sheng, Jingfen ^a   Wilson, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood behavior; Geographic Information System; Spatial and temporal variation; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODING; LAND COVER; LAND USE PLANNING; METROPOLITAN AREA; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBANIZATION; WATERSHED;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57749195576     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-008-9241-7     Document Type: Article

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