IFKIS-Hydro: An early warning and information system for floods and debris flows

Natural Hazards

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 509-527

  Romang, Hans ^a   Zappa, Massimiliano ^c   Hilker, Nadine ^c   Gerber, Matthias ^b   Dufour, François ^b   Frede, Valérie ^d   Bérod, Dominique ^e   Oplatka, Matthias ^f   Hegg, Christoph ^c   Rhyner, Jakob ^b  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d Axpo Holding AG   (Switzerland)

^e Bundesamt fur Umweltschutz   (Switzerland)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Debris flows; Early warning; Flood warning; Information system; Monitoring; Risk management

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; DEBRIS FLOW; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FLOODING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MONITORING SYSTEM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER DISCHARGE;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79551597198     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9507-8     Document Type: Article

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