Pluvial flooding in European cities-A continental approach to urban flood modelling

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Guerreiro, Selma B ^a   Glenis, Vassilis ^a   Dawson, Richard J ^a   Kilsby, Chris ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

City flooding; Europe; pluvial flooding; Urban flooding

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SURVEYING;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; MODELLING CAPABILITIES; PLUVIAL FLOODING; RAINFALL INTENSITY; URBAN FLOOD MODELLING; URBAN FLOODING;

FLOODS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOODING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RETURN PERIOD; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN AREA;

EUROPE;

EID: 85018491634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w9040296     Document Type: Article

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