Combined fluvial and pluvial urban flood hazard analysis: Concept development and application to Can Tho city, Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 941-961

  Apel, Heiko ^a   Martínez Trepat, Oriol ^a   Nghia Hung, Nguyen ^b   Thi Chinh, Do ^a,b   Merz, Bruno ^a   Viet Dung, Nguyen ^a,b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Southern Institute of Water Resources Research SIWRR   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; INFILTRATION; MAPPING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN REGION; WATER LEVEL;

CAN THO; MEKONG DELTA; MEKONG RIVER; VIET NAM;

EID: 84966267487     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-16-941-2016     Document Type: Article

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