Climate change and river flooding: Part 2 sensitivity characterisation for british catchments and example vulnerability assessments

Climatic Change

Volumn 119, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 949-964

  Prudhomme, Christel ^a   Kay, Alison L ^a   Crooks, Sue ^a   Reynard, Nick ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; CATCHMENT PROPERTIES; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RECURSIVE PARTITIONING; RESPONSE SURFACE; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS; WETTER CATCHMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER SUPPLY;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOODING; PERMEABILITY; RAINFALL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84880570669     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0726-3     Document Type: Article

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