DEM uncertainty and hazard analysis using a geophysical flow model

Modelling for Environment's Sake: Proceedings of the 5th Biennial Conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, iEMSs 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 418-426

  Stefanescu, E R ^a   Bursik, M ^b   Dalbey, K ^a   Jones, M ^b   Patra, A K ^a   Pitman, E B ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer model; Granular flow; Hazard map; Probabilistic; TITAN2D

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODELS; GRANULAR FLOWS; HAZARD MAP; PROBABILISTIC; TITAN2D;

HAZARDS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84858642747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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