How useful are complex flood damage models?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3378-3395

  Schröter, Kai ^a   Kreibich, Heidi ^a   Vogel, Kristin ^b   Riggelsen, Carsten ^b   Scherbaum, Frank ^b   Merz, Bruno ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; damage; floods; model validation; regression tree

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FLOODS; FORECASTING;

COMPARISON OF MODELS; DAMAGE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; MODEL VALIDATION; OBSERVATION UNCERTAINTIES; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; REGRESSION TREES; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING;

FLOOD DAMAGE;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL HISTORY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

GERMANY;

EID: 84899039210     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014396     Document Type: Article

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