Detecting flood variations in shanghai over 1949-2009 with Mann-Kendall tests and a newspaper-based database

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1808-1824

  Du, Shiqiang ^a   Gu, Honghuan ^a   Wen, Jiahong ^a   Chen, Ke ^b   Van Rompaey, Anton ^c  

^a SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Disaster database; Flood; Mann Kendall tests; Newspapers; Waterlogging

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DRAINAGE; LEVEES; NEWSPRINT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGRICULTURAL DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MANN-KENDALL TEST; NEWSPAPERS; RAPID URBANIZATIONS; URBAN DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; WATERLOGGING;

FLOODS;

CALIBRATION; DATABASE; DETECTION METHOD; FLOOD; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN DRAINAGE; URBANIZATION; WATERLOGGING;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84938698543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w7051808     Document Type: Article

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