Distributed hydrologic and hydraulic modelling with radar rainfall input: Reconstruction of the 8-9 September 2002 catastrophic flood event in the Gard region, France

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1077-1089

  Bonnifait, Laurent ^a   Delrieu, Guy ^a   Lay, Matthieu Le ^a   Boudevillain, Brice ^a   Masson, Arielle ^b   Belleudy, Philippe ^a   Gaume, Eric ^c   Saulnier, Georges Marie ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b SOGREAH   (France)

^c Laboratoire Central des Fonts et Chaussées   (France)

^d Campus Technolac Savoie Mont Blanc University   (France)

Author keywords

Distributed hydrologic modelling; Flash flood; hydraulic modelling; Hydrologic extremes; Quantitative precipitation estimation; Scale dependence; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODELLING; FLASH FLOOD; HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; SCALE DEPENDENCE; WEATHER RADAR;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DYNAMICS; LANDFORMS; RADAR; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SURVEYS; WATERSHEDS;

HYDRAULICS;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; FLASH FLOOD; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PEAK FLOW; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; RIVER DISCHARGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GARD; LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349134675     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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