Application of a distributed hydrological model to the design of a road inundation warning system for flash flood prone areas

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 805-817

  Versini, P A ^a   Gaume, E ^b   Andrieu, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Laboratoire Central des Fonts et Chaussées   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLASH FLOOD; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD FORECASTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ROAD; WARNING SYSTEM;

FRANCE; GARD; LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON;

EID: 77951117462     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-10-805-2010     Document Type: Article

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