Uncertainty Quantification in Flood Inundation Mapping Using Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimate and Sensitivity Analysis

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 507-520

  Jung, Younghun ^a   Merwade, Venkatesh ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood inundation mapping; GLUE; HEC RAS; Likelihood measure; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; FLOOD EVENT; FLOW INFORMATIONS; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; GEOPROCESSING; HEC-RAS; HYDROLOGIC ENGINEERING CENTER-RIVER ANALYSIS SYSTEMS; INDIANA; INUNDATION MAPS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIKELIHOOD MEASURE; MODEL PREDICTION; MODELING APPROACH; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NORTH CAROLINA; ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT; STUDY AREAS; SUBJECTIVE SELECTION; SUM OF ABSOLUTE ERRORS; SUM OF SQUARED ERRORS; TECHNIQUES USED; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY BOUNDS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS; WATER SURFACE ELEVATIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; GLUES; GLUING; MAPPING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FLOOD; MAPPING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; ROUGHNESS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84860160956     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000476     Document Type: Article

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