Comparing ensemble projections of flooding against flood estimation by continuous simulation

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 511, Issue , 2014, Pages 205-219

  Smith, Andrew ^a   Freer, Jim ^a   Bates, Paul ^a   Sampson, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; ENSEMBLES; Flooding; RCM; Stochastic model; UKCP09

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893971891     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.01.045     Document Type: Article

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