Tall tales about tails of hydrological distributions. I

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 227-231

  Klemeš, Vít ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; HYDROLOGICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; HYDROLOGICAL DURATION CURVES; HYDROLOGICAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

HYDROLOGY;

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0034235991     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2000)5:3(227)     Document Type: Article

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