Modeling and mitigating natural hazards: Stationarity is immortal!

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 9748-9756

  Montanari, Alberto ^a   Koutsoyiannis, Demetris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

environmental modeling; floods; hydrology; natural hazards; stationarity; stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

BIOGRAPHIES; FLOODS; HYDROLOGY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL PREDICTION; NATURAL HAZARD; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; STATIONARITY;

HAZARDS;

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NATURAL HAZARD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; PREDICTION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84921477839     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016092     Document Type: Review

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