Flood design recipes vs. reality: Can predictions for ungauged basins be trusted?

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1417-1428

  Efstratiadis, A ^a   Koussis, A D ^b   Koutsoyiannis, D ^a   Mamassis, N ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PREDICTION;

CYPRUS; GREECE;

EID: 84902170370     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-14-1417-2014     Document Type: Article

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