A subgrid channel model for simulating river hydraulics and floodplain inundation over large and data sparse areas

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Neal, Jeffrey ^a   Schumann, Guy ^a,b   Bates, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MODEL; CHANNEL NETWORK; CHANNELIZED FLOW; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DISTRIBUTED DYNAMICS; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOODPLAIN INUNDATION; FLOW DYNAMICS; GRID RESOLUTION; LAND SURFACE SCHEME; LARGE DATA; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; LOW RESOLUTION; NIGER; NUMERICAL SCHEME; ONE-DIMENSIONAL (1D) MODELS; PROPAGATION SPEED; RIVER CHANNELS; RIVER HYDRAULICS; ROUTING MODEL; SIMULATION ACCURACY; SMALL CHANNELS; SPARSE AREAS; SUB-GRIDS; SUBGRID MODEL; SUBGRID SCALE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2-D) MODEL; WATER SURFACE ELEVATIONS; WATER-LEVEL DATA; WAVE SPEED;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); HYDRAULIC MODELS; MODEL STRUCTURES; RIVERS; WATER LEVELS;

FLOODS;

CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; FLOODPLAIN; LAND SURFACE; PARAMETERIZATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

MALI; NIGER RIVER;

EID: 84869481951     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012514     Document Type: Article

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