Abstract
The issue from societal and hydrological perspectives Australia is the driest inhabited continent, with highly variable year to year water availability, leading to cycles of significant droughts and flooding. Episodes of serious flooding can affect large areas, such as experienced during the 2010-11 season in Queensland, when flooding impacted around 70% of the state and resulted in total damage to public infrastructure estimated to exceed Aus$5 billion (PWC, 2011). While the majority of this flood damage occurred in urban areas such as Brisbane, which are located in well-gauged river basins, a significant portion of it was experienced in ungauged basins distributed throughout the state. Limited design flood information for these areas may not only contribute to a larger flood damage bill, but also to greater trauma and personal loss suffered by people in these areas when a major flood event occurs.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Runoff Prediction in Ungauged Basins: Synthesis across Processes, Places and Scales |
| Editors | Günter Blöschl, Murugesu Sivapalan, Thorsten Wagener, Alberto Viglione, Hubert Savenije |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 309-313 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781107028180 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
