How are flood risk estimates affected by the choice of return-periods?
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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 (or return periods), to plot these on an exceedance probability-loss curve (risk curve) and to esti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1684-9981
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-3181-2011