Estimating the upper tail of flood-peak frequency distributions using hydrometeorological information

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1729-1740

  Naghettini, Mauro ^a   Potter, Kenneth W ^b   Illangasekare, Tissa ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; MODEL; PRECIPITATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; TAIL;

FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDRO; METEOROLOGICAL EFFECTS;

EID: 0029656872     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR00200     Document Type: Article

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