The importance of understanding drivers of hydroclimatic variability for robust flood risk planning in the coastal zone

Australian Journal of Water Resources

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 126-134

  Kiem, A S ^a   Verdon Kidd, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation; Climate variability; Non stationarity; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; FLOODS; INVESTMENTS; RAIN;

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DAILY RAINFALL; FLOOD ESTIMATION; FLOOD RISKS; HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABILITY; NON-STATIONARITIES; RISK PLANNING; RISKS ASSESSMENTS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE; DECADAL VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOOD WAVE; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; INVESTMENT; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; URBAN AREA;

AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84892543155     PISSN: 13241583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7158/w13-015.2013.17.2     Document Type: Article

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