Flood-plain mapping: A critical discussion of deterministic and probabilistic approaches;Cartographie de zone inondable: Un examen critique d'approches déterministe et probabiliste

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 364-376

  Di Baldassarre, Giuliano ^a   Schumann, Guy ^b   Bates, Paul D ^b   Freer, Jim E ^b   Beven, Keith J ^c,d,e  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Flood hazard; Flood plain mapping; Hydraulic models; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

DETERMINISTIC AND PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; DETERMINISTIC APPROACH; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FLOOD HAZARDS; FLOOD INUNDATION MODELLING; HISTORICAL FLOODS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; TEST SITE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOOD CONTROL; HYDRAULIC MODELS; MAPPING; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOODPLAIN; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAPPING; PROBABILITY; RASTER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649730640     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626661003683389     Document Type: Article

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