Advances in pan-European flood hazard mapping

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4067-4077

  Alfieri, Lorenzo ^a,b   Salamon, Peter ^a   Bianchi, Alessandra ^a   Neal, Jeffrey ^c   Bates, Paul ^c   Feyen, Luc ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design hydrographs; Flood hazard mapping; Floodplain hydraulic simulations; Lisflood hydrological model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAZARDS; HYDRAULIC MODELS; MAPPING; METEOROLOGY; STREAM FLOW;

EMERGENCY OPERATIONS; FLOOD HAZARDS; HYDRAULIC SIMULATION; HYDROGRAPHS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INHERENT LIMITATIONS; QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; STREAMFLOW SIMULATIONS;

FLOODS;

FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MAPPING; RIVER FLOW; STREAMFLOW;

GERMANY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84902806203     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9947     Document Type: Article

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