1 Introduction - Hydrological Aspects of Risk Management ....... 1
Andreas H. Schumann
2 Uncertainties in Weather Forecast - Reasons and Handling .... 11
Dirk Schüttemeyer and Clemens Simmer
3 Interpolation of Precipitation for Flood Modelling .......... 35
Uwe Haberlandt
4 Framing Uncertainties in Flood Forecasting with Ensembles ... 53
Andreas H. Schumann, Yan Wang, and Jörg Dietrich
5 Design of Artificial Neural Networks for Flood
Forecasting ................................................. 77
Johannes Cullmann and Gerd H. Schmitz
6 Advances in Regionalising Flood Probabilities ............... 97
Ralf Merz
7 Rainfall Generators for Application in Flood Studies ....... 117
Uwe Haberlandt, Yeshewatesfa Hundecha, Markus Pahlow,
and Andreas H. Schumann
8 Copulas - New Risk Assessment Methodology for Dam Safety ... 149
Bastian Klein, Andreas H. Schumann, and Markus Pahlow
9 Hydraulic Modelling ........................................ 187
Mark Musall, Peter Oberle, and Franz Nestmann
10 Groundwater - The Subterranean Part of Flood Risk .......... 211
Thomas Sommer
11 Quantification of Socio-Economic Flood Risks ............... 229
Bruno Merz, Annegret Thieken, and Heidi Kreibich
12 Application of Scenarios and Multi-Criteria Decision
Making Tools in Flood Polder Planning ...................... 249
Andreas H. Schumann and David Nijssen
Index ......................................................... 277
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