A decision support system for updating and incorporating climate change impacts into rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves: Review of the stakeholder involvement process

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 84, Issue , 2016, Pages 193-209

  Sandink, Dan ^a   Simonovic, Slobodan P ^b   Schardong, Andre ^b   Srivastav, Roshan ^b  

^a Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Climate change; Decision support system; End user involvement; Intensity duration frequency curve; Stakeholder involvement

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

CANADA; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (DSSS); END USER INVOLVEMENT; INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY CURVES; RAINFALL INTENSITY DURATION FREQUENCY; STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT; SYSTEM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STAKEHOLDER;

CANADA;

EID: 84978426225     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.06.012     Document Type: Article

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