Urban micro-scale flood risk estimation with parsimonious hydraulic modelling and census data

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1375-1391

  Arrighi, C ^a   Brugioni, M ^b   Castelli, F ^a   Franceschini, S ^b   Mazzanti, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Arno River Basin Authority   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD FORECASTING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN AREA;

FIRENZE [TUSCANY]; FLORENCE [FIRENZE]; ITALY; TUSCANY;

EID: 84919382405     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-1375-2013     Document Type: Article

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