Hydraulic routing of extreme floods in a large ungauged river and the estimation of associated uncertainties: A case study of the Damodar River, India

Natural Hazards

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1153-1177

  Sanyal, Joy ^a   Carbonneau, Patrice ^a   Densmore, Alexander L ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developing country; GLUE; Hydrodynamic model; India; LISFLOOD FP; SRTM DEM

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; FLOOD ROUTING; HYDRODYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DAMODAR RIVER; INDIA;

EID: 84874197161     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0540-7     Document Type: Article

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