Rethinking flood hazard at the global scale

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 10,249-10,256

  Schumann, Guy J P ^a,b   Stampoulis, Dimitrios ^c   Smith, Andrew M ^b,d   Sampson, Christopher C ^b,d   Andreadis, Konstantinos M ^c   Neal, Jeffrey C ^b   Bates, Paul D ^b  

^a 248 E Foothill Blvd   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SSBN Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

continental scale; event simulations; flood hazard; flood risk; inundation; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); HAZARDS; REMOTE SENSING; STREAM FLOW;

CONTINENTAL SCALE; EVENT SIMULATION; FLOOD HAZARDS; FLOOD RISKS; INUNDATION;

FLOODS;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DISCHARGE; FLOOD; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HYDRODYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STREAMFLOW;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84990947042     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070260     Document Type: Article

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