The challenges of developing rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves and national flood hazard maps for the Caribbean

Journal of Flood Risk Management

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-52

  Lumbroso, D M ^a,b   Boyce, S ^c   Bast, H ^b   Walmsley, N ^b  

^a HR WALLINGFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Laboratoire Centrale de Ponts et Chausées   (France)

^c Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology Husbands   (Barbados)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Flood hazard maps; IDF curves; Rainfall intensity

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PROTECTION; FLOOD DAMAGE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 79751490667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1753318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-318X.2010.01088.x     Document Type: Article

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