Detailed data is welcome, but with a pinch of salt: Accuracy, precision, and uncertainty in flood inundation modeling

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 6079-6085

  Dottori, F ^a   Di Baldassarre, G ^b   Todini, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

data uncertainty; flood modeling; high resolution data; model uncertainty; subgrid methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; FLOOD CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA UNCERTAINTY; FLOOD MODELING; HIGH RESOLUTION DATA; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; SUB-GRIDS;

FLOODS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; FLOOD; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECISION; RISK FACTOR; ROUGHNESS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84883567118     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20406     Document Type: Article

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