Derivation of Probabilistic Thresholds of Spatially Distributed Rainfall for Flood Forecasting

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3547-3559

  Golian, Saeed ^a   Saghafian, Bahram ^b   Maknoon, Reza ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Flood forecasting; Monte Carlo simulation; Rainfall spatial distribution; Rainfall threshold

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE RAINFALL; DECISION MAKERS; DRY SOIL; FLOOD FORECASTING; GREEN-AMPT; GREEN-AMPT INFILTRATION; HEC-HMS; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; INITIAL SOIL MOISTURE; MC SIMULATION; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PEAK DISCHARGE; RAINFALL DURATION; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINFALL THRESHOLD; RANDOM WEIGHT; REAL-TIME OPERATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TARGET SITES; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME TO PEAK; TOTAL RAINFALL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEEPAGE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; WATERSHEDS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PEAK DISCHARGE; RAINFALL; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84755161347     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9619-7     Document Type: Article

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