Urban flood hazard assessment in the basin of Athens Metropolitan city, Greece

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 319-

  Bathrellos, G D ^a   Karymbalis, E ^b   Skilodimou, H D ^a   Gaki Papanastassiou, K ^a   Baltas, E A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

GIS; Kifisos and Ilisos Rivers; Morphometry; Multi criteria analysis; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; FLOODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; LITHOLOGY; RIVERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHICAL PROCESS; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; FLOOD HAZARD ASSESSMENT; FLOOD HAZARD MAPS; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; METROPOLITAN CITIES; MORPHOMETRY; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DRAINAGE NETWORK; ELEVATION; FLASH FLOOD; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LAND COVER; METROPOLITAN AREA; MORPHOMETRY; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; SLOPE ANGLE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM CHANNEL;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84964882780     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-5157-1     Document Type: Article

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