Flood Risk Assessment and Management : How to Specify Hydrological Loads, Their Consequences and Uncertainties - Schumann, Andreas H.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011)
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.
Keywords: Hydrogeology; Environmental management; Physical geography; Hydrogeology; Environmental Management; Physical Geography