A physically based stochastic-deterministic procedure for the estimation of flood frequency

Water Resources Management

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 415-437

  Loukas, Athanasios ^a   Quick, Michael C ^a   Russell, Samuel O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Applied surface hydrology; Design criteria; Flood frequency; Modeling; Rainfall; Runoff

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; HYDROLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORMS; WATERSHEDS;

FLOOD FREQUENCY; SPACE DISTRIBUTION; STORM DEPTH; STORM DURATION; TIME DISTRIBUTION;

FLOODS;

FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; SIMULATION-MONTE CARLO; WATERSHEDS;

FLOOD FREQUENCY; RAINFALL/RUNOFF MODEL; UNGUAGED WATERSHED; WATERSHED RESPONSE;

CANADA, BRITISH COLUMBIA;

EID: 0030430315     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00422548     Document Type: Article

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