Testing new sources of topographic data for flood propagation modelling under structural, parameter and observation uncertainty

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1707-1715

  Mukolwe, Micah M ^a,b   Yan, Kun ^a,b   Di Baldassarre, Giuliano ^c   Solomatine, Dimitri P ^a,b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

EUDEM; Flood modelling; SRTM; Topography; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; MODEL STRUCTURES; OPTICAL RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY; TRACKING RADAR;

COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; EUDEM; FLOOD INUNDATION MODELLING; FLOOD MODELLING; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; OBSERVATION UNCERTAINTIES; SRTM; UNCERTAINTY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOODING; FLOW MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ITALY; PO RIVER;

EID: 84969821547     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2015.1019507     Document Type: Article

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