Flood risk curves and uncertainty bounds

Natural Hazards

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 437-458

  Merz, Bruno ^a   Thieken, Annegret H ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Damage estimation; Flood frequency analysis; Floods; Risk analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; COLOGNE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA;

EID: 70449532142     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-009-9452-6     Document Type: Article

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