A critical review of integrated urban water modelling - Urban drainage and beyond

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 54, Issue , 2014, Pages 88-107

  Bach, Peter M ^a   Rauch, Wolfgang ^b   Mikkelsen, Peter S ^c   McCarthy, David T ^a   Deletic, Ana ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Decision support; Integrated urban water management (IUWM); Inter disciplinary modelling; Model integration; Uncertainty; Urban water systems

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORTS; INTEGRATED URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT; MODEL INTEGRATION; UNCERTAINTY; URBAN WATER SYSTEMS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATERWORKS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOFTWARE; TYPOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN DRAINAGE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84892641700     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.12.018     Document Type: Review

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