Floods in a Changing Climate: Inundation Modelling
ISBN: 9781107018754 | 1107018757
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 1/31/2013
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Flood inundation models enable us to make hazard predictions for floodplains, mitigating increasing flood fatalities and losses. This book provides an understanding of hydraulic modelling and floodplain dynamics, with a key focus on state-of-the-art remote sensing data, and methods to estimate and communicate uncertainty. Academic researchers in the fields of hydrology, climate change, environmental science and natural hazards, and professionals and policy-makers working in flood risk mitigation, hydraulic engineering and remote sensing will fi... MORE
| List of contributors | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Theory | |
| Theoretical background: steady flow Luigia Brandimarte | |
| Theoretical background: unsteady flow Ioana Popescu | |
| Methods | |
| Data sources | |
| Model building | |
| Model evaluation | |
| Model outputs |
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