Distributed whole city water level measurements from the Carlisle 2005 urban flood event and comparison with hydraulic model simulations

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 368, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 42-55

  Neal, Jeffrey C ^a   Bates, Paul D ^a   Fewtrell, Timothy J ^a   Hunter, Neil M ^b   Wilson, Matthew D ^c   Horritt, Matthew S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b JBA CONSULTING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^d CH2M HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Carlisle; Hydraulic modelling; Model validation; Urban flooding

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; FLOOD CONTROL; HYDRAULIC MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OPTICAL RADAR;

BUILDING HEIGHTS; CARLISLE; CHANNEL ROUGHNESS; CITY SCALE; COMPUTER POWER; DIGITAL ELEVATION DATUM; DIGITAL TERRAINS; DISTRIBUTED MEASUREMENTS; ELEVATION DATUM; FIRST ORDERS; FLOOD EVENTS; FLOOD INUNDATION MODELLING; FLOOD-PLAINS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HYDROGRAPHS; MAJOR EVENTS; MASTERMAP; MEASUREMENT DATUM; MODEL SIMULATIONS; MODEL VALIDATION; POTENTIAL ERRORS; SIMULATION ERRORS; URBAN FLOODING; URBAN FLOODS; VALIDATION DATUM; WATER LEVEL MEASUREMENTS; WAVE APPROACHES; WAVE MODELS;

WATER LEVELS;

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FLOODING; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LIDAR; MODEL VALIDATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 62849089954     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.01.026     Document Type: Article

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