Framing uncertainties in flood forecasting with ensembles

Flood Risk Assessment and Management: How to Specify Hydrological Loads, Their Consequences and Uncertainties

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 53-76

  Schumann, Andreas H ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Dietrich, Jörg ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

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EID: 84890001905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9917-4_4     Document Type: Chapter

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