Planning of technical flood retention measures in large river basins under consideration of imprecise probabilities of multivariate hydrological loads

As a result of the severe floods in Europe at the turn of the millennium, the ongoing shift from safety oriented flood control towards flood risk management was accelerated. With regard to technical flood control measures it became evident that the effectiveness of flood control measures depends on...

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Main Authors: D. Nijssen, A. Schumann, M. Pahlow, B. Klein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009-08-01
Series:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/1349/2009/nhess-9-1349-2009.pdf