Attribution of regional flood changes based on scaling fingerprints

Water Resources Research

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 5322-5340

  Viglione, Alberto ^a   Merz, Bruno ^b   Viet Dung, Nguyen ^b   Parajka, Juraj ^a   Nester, Thomas ^a   Blöschl, Günter ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian attribution; flood change; multiple driver attribution; scaling fingerprints

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOOD CONTROL; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; LAND USE; REGIONAL PLANNING; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SOIL MECHANICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; BAYESIAN; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MULTIPLE DRIVER ATTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; REGIONAL FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SCALING FINGERPRINTS;

FLOODS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CATCHMENT; FLOOD FREQUENCY; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL PATTERN; RIVER SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84978080376     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019036     Document Type: Article

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