Risk assessment on drought disaster in China based on integrative cloud model

Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1137-1146

  Chen, Junfei ^a,b   Zhao, Shufang ^a   Shao, Quanxi ^b   Wang, Huimin ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloud model; Drought disaster; Index system; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

BP NEURAL NETWORKS; CLOUD MODELS; EFFECTIVE TOOL; ENTROPY WEIGHT METHOD; EVALUATION INDEX; HYPER ENTROPY; INDEX SYSTEMS; MODEL-BASED OPC; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS;

ENTROPY; NEURAL NETWORKS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

DROUGHT;

EID: 84862100675     PISSN: 20407459     EISSN: 20407467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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