Regional flood dynamics in a bifurcating mega delta simulated in a global river model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3127-3135

  Yamazaki, Dai ^a,b   Sato, Tomoko ^c   Kanae, Shinjiro ^c   Hirabayashi, Yukiko ^d   Bates, Paul D ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

delta; global modeling; hydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOODS; HYDRODYNAMICS; RIVERS; SURVEYING; WATER LEVELS;

COMPUTATIONAL SCHEMES; DELTA; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOODPLAIN MODELING; GLOBAL MODELING; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATION; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

BIFURCATION; CATCHMENT; DELTA; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOOD ROUTING; FLOODPLAIN; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RIVER FLOW; RIVER SYSTEM; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; WATER LEVEL;

MEKONG DELTA; MEKONG RIVER; VIET NAM;

EID: 84901947958     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059744     Document Type: Article

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