Radar-based pluvial flood forecasting over urban areas: Redbridge case study

IAHS-AISH Publication

Volumn 351, Issue , 2012, Pages 632-637

  Wang, Li Pen ^a   Simões, Nuno ^a,b   Rico Ramirez, Miguel ^c   Ochoa, Susana ^a   Leitão, Joao ^d   Maksimovič, Čedo ^a  

^a South Kensington Campus ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Flood forecasting; Nowcasting; Radar; Rainfall; Urban drainage

Indexed keywords

DUAL DRAINAGE SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; FLOOD FORECASTING; NOWCASTING; RAINFALL FORECASTS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; URBAN DRAINAGE; URBAN DRAINAGE MODEL;

CATCHMENTS; FLOOD CONTROL; HYDRAULIC MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR; RAIN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FLOODS;

FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOW MODELING; RADAR IMAGERY; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN DRAINAGE;

EID: 84883075810     PISSN: 01447815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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