Natural hazards in Australia: floods

Climatic Change

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 21-35

  Johnson, Fiona ^a   White, Christopher J ^b   van Dijk, Albert ^c   Ekstrom, Marie ^d   Evans, Jason P ^e   Jakob, Dörte ^f   Kiem, Anthony S ^g   Leonard, Michael ^h   Rouillard, Alexandra ^i,j   Westra, Seth ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^f BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOODS; HAZARDS; RAIN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CATCHMENT RESPONSE; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; HISTORICAL FLOODS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE;

FLOOD CONTROL;

ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FLOOD; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NATURAL HAZARD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84966713006     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1689-y     Document Type: Article

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