Engineering Procedure for the Climate Change Flood Risk Assessment in the Upper Thames River Basin

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 608-612

  Eum, Hyung Il ^a   Sredojevic, Dragan ^a   Simonovic, Slobodan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assessment; Canada; Climate change; Floods; Risk management; Rivers and streams

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENTS; FLOOD RISKS; FLOODPLAIN MAPPING; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HISTORICAL DATA; MODELING ANALYSIS; MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE; PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; THAMES RIVER; WATER DEPTH;

CLIMATE MODELS; FLOODS; RATING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RIVERS; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENGINEERING; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; HYDROLOGY; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN;

CANADA; ENGLAND; ONTARIO [CANADA]; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; THAMES RIVER [ONTARIO]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79960129208     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000346     Document Type: Article

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