Hydraulic flood routing with minimal channel data: Peace River, Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
• Main Author: Hicks, Faye E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1996
• Subjects: General Environmental Science; Civil and Structural Engineering; Canada; British Columbia; Peace River
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/l96-057; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/l96-057

Hydrologic flood routing models have been, and continue to be, the primary tool of the flood forecaster. However, any advancement in our ability to model a wider variety of flow scenarios, including extreme flood events (for which no calibration may be available), dam break floods, or ice-related ev...