A first large-scale flood inundation forecasting model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6248-6257

  Schumann, G J P ^a,b   Neal, J C ^a   Voisin, N ^c   Andreadis, K M ^b   Pappenberger, F ^d,e   Phanthuwongpakdee, N ^a   Hall, A C ^a   Bates, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^e HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

flood inundation forecasting; hydrodynamics; large scale

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION TO DETAILS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLOOD WAVE PROPAGATION; FORECASTING CAPABILITY; FORECASTING MODELING; LARGE SCALE; MODEL GRID RESOLUTION; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; HYDRODYNAMICS; WATER LEVELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; DISCHARGE; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW MODELING; HYDRODYNAMICS; PARAMETERIZATION; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SIMULATION; WATER LEVEL;

MOZAMBIQUE; ZAMBEZI RIVER;

EID: 84884919753     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20521     Document Type: Article

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