When does spatial resolution become spurious in probabilistic flood inundation predictions?

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 2014-2032

  Savage, James Thomas Steven ^a   Bates, Paul ^a   Freer, Jim ^a   Neal, Jeffrey ^a   Aronica, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

epistemic errors; flood inundation; hydraulic modelling; probabilistic; spatial resolution; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COPYRIGHTS; FLOOD CONTROL; FORECASTING; HYDRAULIC MODELS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COARSER RESOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL EXPENSE; FLOOD INUNDATION PREDICTIONS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; PROBABILISTIC; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY;

FLOODS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOOD FREQUENCY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECISION; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ITALY; SALSO BASIN; SICILY;

EID: 84956602019     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10749     Document Type: Article

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