Distributed Models and Uncertainty in Flood Risk Management

Flood Risk Science and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 289-312

  Beven, Keith ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration Issues in Using Distributed Models; Data Assimilation Issues in Using Distributed Models; Distributed Models and Uncertainty in Flood Risk Management; Model likelihood issues; Prediction Uncertainty in Distributed Models; Systems Modelling and Uncertainty Handling; The freeze and Harlan blueprint; The Requirement for Distributed Models in Flood Risk Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885747933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324846.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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