Regional estimation of flood quantiles: Parametric versus nonparametric regression models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 11-111

  Latraverse, Marco ^a   Rasmussen, Peter F ^b   Bobée, Bernard ^c  

^a HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Floods; Frequency analysis; Nonlinear; Nonparametric; Regionalization; Regression

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION TRANSFER;

WATER RESOURCES;

DESIGN FLOOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD FREQUENCY;

EID: 0036661794     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000677     Document Type: Article

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