Modeling complex flow dynamics of fluvial floods exacerbated by sea level rise in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Ikeuchi, Hiroaki ^a   Hirabayashi, Yukiko ^a   Yamazaki, Dai ^b   Kiguchi, Masashi ^c   Koirala, Sujan ^d   Nagano, Takanori ^e   Kotera, Akihiko ^f   Kanae, Shinjiro ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^g TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

backwater effect; channel bifurcation; climate change; fluvial flooding; sea level rise

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA LEVEL; WATER;

BACKWATER EFFECTS; CHANGING CLIMATE; CHANNEL BIFURCATION; FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS; MODEL COMPLEXES; ROUTING MODEL; SEA LEVEL RISE; STATE OF THE ART;

FLOODS;

BACKWATER; BIFURCATION; CHANNEL FLOW; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODING; FLOW MODELING; FLUVIAL PROCESS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRIBUTARY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

BANGLADESH; GANGES DELTA; MEGHNA RIVER;

EID: 84952935682     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124011     Document Type: Article

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