The sensitivity of fluvial flood risk in Irish catchments to the range of IPCC AR4 climate change scenarios

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 5403-5415

  Bastola, Satish ^a   Murphy, Conor ^a   Sweeney, John ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Flood frequency; GLUE; Hydrological impact; Ireland; Sensitivity analysis; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE WIDTH; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FLOOD QUANTILES; FLOOD RISKS; HIGH FREQUENCY; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; IN-BUILDINGS; IRELAND; LOW FREQUENCY; PEAK FLOWS; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; PROBABILITY WEIGHTED MOMENTS; RETURN PERIODS; SAFETY MARGIN; WEATHER GENERATOR;

CATCHMENTS; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; GLUES; GLUING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK PERCEPTION; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

RAIN;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; FLOOD FREQUENCY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PEAK FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; EVAPORATION; FLOODING; FLUVIAL FLOOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HYDROLOGY; IRISH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGIONALIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WATER FLOW;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; IRELAND; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY; WATER MOVEMENTS;

IRELAND;

EID: 80054725209     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.08.042     Document Type: Article

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