Bayesian uncertainty assessment of flood predictions in ungauged urban basins for conceptual rainfall-runoff models

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1221-1236

  Sikorska, A E ^a,b   Scheidegger, A ^a   Banasik, K ^b   Rieckermann, J ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOREGRESSIVE ERROR MODEL; BAYESIAN STATISTICS; BAYESIAN UPDATING; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CONTINUOUS TIME; DISCHARGE MEASUREMENTS; FLOOD PREDICTION; INPUT UNCERTAINTY; LAND-USE CHANGE; PEAK FLOWS; PREDICTION INTERVAL; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY; PRIOR PARAMETER DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT; UNGAUGED BASINS; URBAN CATCHMENT; URBAN SPRAWL; URBAN WATERSHED; WATER CYCLE;

CATCHMENTS; FORECASTING; RUNOFF; URBAN GROWTH; WATERSHEDS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; FLOOD FORECASTING; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK FLOW; PREDICTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

MAZOWIECKIE; POLAND; WARSAW [MAZOWIECKIE];

EID: 84859790452     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-1221-2012     Document Type: Article

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