Flood Risk Assessment and Management How to Specify Hydrological Loads, Their Consequences and Uncertainties /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schumann, Andreas H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Hydrogeology.; Physical geography.; Environmental management.; Earth Sciences.; Environmental Management.; Physical Geography.

This book examines many aspects of flood risk management in a comprehensive way. As risks depend on hazard and vulnerabilities, not only geophysical tools for flood forecasting and planning are presented, but also socio-economic problems of flood management are discussed. Starting with precipitation...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. Hydrological aspects of risk management
• Uncertainties in weather forecast - reasons and handling
• 3. Interpolation of precipitation for flood modelling
• 4. Framing uncertainties in flood forecasting with ensembles
• 5. Design of artificial neural networks for flood forecasting
• 6. Advances in regionalising flood probabilities
• 7. Rainfall generators for application in flood studies
• 8. Copulas - New Risk Assessment Methodology for Dam Safety
• 9. Hydraulic Modelling
• 10. Groundwater – the Subterranean Part of Flood Risk
• 11. Quantification of socio-economic flood risks
• 12. Application of scenarios and multi-criteria decision making tools in flood polder planning
• Index.