Climate change and floodplain delineation in two southern quebec river basins

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 785-799

  Laforce, Serge ^a   Simard, Marie Claude ^b   Leconte, Robert ^c   Brissette, François ^d  

^a Genivar   (Canada)

^b HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Flooding; Floodplain mapping; Simulation

Indexed keywords

FLOOD FLOW; FLOOD MAPS; FLOOD ZONES; FLOODPLAIN DELINEATION; FLOODPLAIN MAPPING; FUTURE CLIMATE; GENERAL TRENDS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; MODELING APPROACH; PEAK DISCHARGE; PEAK FLOWS; POSSIBLE FUTURES; PROBABILISTIC PROJECTIONS; QUEBEC , CANADA; RIVER BASINS; RIVER FLOW; SIMULATION; SPRING FLOODS; TIME HORIZONS; TOPDOWN; WATERSHED SCALE;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; MAPPING; RIVERS; WATER LEVELS; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; GREENHOUSE GAS; OPEN WATER; PEAK FLOW; PROBABILITY; RIVER BASIN; RIVER FLOW; WATER LEVEL;

CANADA; CHATEAUGUAY BASIN; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 79960745745     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00560.x     Document Type: Article

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