A high-resolution global flood hazard model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 7358-7381

  Sampson, Christopher C ^a   Smith, Andrew M ^a   Bates, Paul B ^a   Neal, Jeffrey C ^a   Alfieri, Lorenzo ^b   Freer, Jim E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

flooding; global; hydraulic; large scale modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HAZARDS; HYDRAULICS; OIL WELL FLOODING; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY; DEVELOPING WORLD; FLOOD HAZARD MAPS; GLOBAL; HIGH RESOLUTION; LARGE-SCALE MODELING; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MODEL PERFORMANCE;

FLOODS;

CHANNEL CHANGE; DATA SET; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FLOODING; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA;

CANADA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84944441730     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR016954     Document Type: Article

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