Comprehensive assessment of flood risk using the classification and regression tree method

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1815-1828

  Ji, Zhonghui ^a,b   Li, Ning ^a,b   Xie, Wei ^a,b   Wu, Jidong ^a,b   Zhou, Yang ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

CART; Flood; Meteorological conditions; RDLS; Risk evaluation; Social vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CART; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; RDLS; RISK EVALUATION; SOCIAL VULNERABILITY;

FORESTRY; LINEAR REGRESSION; LOSSES; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; STORMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

FLOODS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOOD FREQUENCY; RAINSTORM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; VULNERABILITY;

FLOODING; FORESTRY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CHINA; HUNAN;

EID: 84885018971     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-013-0716-z     Document Type: Article

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