Assessment of scaling behavior of regional floods

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 169-173

  Pandey, Ganesh R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PROBABILITY WEIGHTED MOMENTS; SCALING BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MOMENTS;

FLOODS;

FLOOD; SCALING;

EID: 0032122365     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(1998)3:3(169)     Document Type: Article

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