Stochastic urban pluvial flood hazard maps based upon a spatial-temporal rainfall generator

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3396-3406

  Simões, Nuno Eduardo ^a   Ochoa Rodríguez, Susana ^b   Wang, Li Pen ^c   Pina, Rui Daniel ^a,b   Marques, Alfeu Sá ^a   Onof, Christian ^b   Leitão, João P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Flood hazard mapping; Flood risk mapping; Rainfall radar; Spatial temporal; Stochastic; Urban pluvial flooding

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOOD CONTROL; HAZARDS; MAPPING; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RUNOFF; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STORMS; WATER LEVELS;

FLOOD HAZARDS; FLOOD RISKS; PLUVIAL FLOODING; RAINFALL RADARS; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; STOCHASTIC;

FLOODS;

EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; RADAR; RAINFALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWER NETWORK; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; STORM; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84940391183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w7073396     Document Type: Article

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