How are flood risk estimates affected by the choice of return-periods?
Flood management is more and more adopting a risk based approach, whereby flood risk is the product of the probability and consequences of flooding. One of the most common approaches in flood risk assessment is to estimate the damage that would occur for floods of several exceedance probabilities (o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/11/3181/2011/nhess-11-3181-2011.pdf |