A study of the climate change impacts on fluvial flood propagation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4637-4649

  Van, P D T ^a,b   Popescu, I ^b   Van Griensven, A ^b,e   Solomatine, D P ^b,c   Trung, N H ^a   Green, A ^d  

^a CAN THO UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d Mekong River Comission ^*  (Cambodia)

^e VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DOWNSTREAM BOUNDARY; FLOOD HYDROGRAPHS; FLOOD PROPAGATION; MEKONG RIVER COMMISSIONS; MODELLING SYSTEMS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; RETURN PERIODS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; RIVERS; SEA LEVEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FLOODS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOOD; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PADDY FARMING; RETURN PERIOD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

CAMBODIA; KRACHEH; MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM;

EID: 84873805866     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-4637-2012     Document Type: Article

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