Toward more robust extreme flood prediction by Bayesian hierarchical and multimodeling

Natural Hazards

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 203-225

  Yan, Hongxiang ^a   Moradkhani, Hamid ^a  

^a Portland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

BMA; Extreme flood; Spatial Bayesian hierarchical; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84957849948     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-2070-6     Document Type: Article

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