Numerical assessment of flood hazard risk to people and vehicles in flash floods

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 987-998

  Xia, Junqiang ^a,b   Falconer, Roger A ^b   Lin, Binliang ^b   Tan, Guangming ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flash floods; Flood hazard risk; Numerical assessment; People safety; Vehicle safety

Indexed keywords

FLASH FLOOD; FLOOD HAZARDS; NUMERICAL ASSESSMENT; PEOPLE SAFETY; VEHICLE SAFETY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMS; DISASTERS; FLOOD CONTROL; FORECASTING; HAZARDS; PARKS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RATING; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; VEHICLES;

FLOODS;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMOBILE; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DAM FAILURE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLASH FLOOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARKING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN AREA;

BOSCASTLE; CORNWALL [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; FRANCE; PAKISTAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79954824162     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.02.017     Document Type: Article

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