Physics of flood frequency analysis. II. Convective diffusion model versus lognormal model

Acta Geophysica Polonica

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-106

  Strupczewski, Witold G ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^b   Wȩglarczyk, Stanisaw ^c   Mitosek, Henryk T ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Asymptotic bias; Convective diffusion model; Flood frequency; Lognormal model; Model selection; Monte Carlo simulation; Parameter estimation; Poland; Probability distribution; Statistical tests; Time series

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FLOODS; RIVERS;

CONVECTIVE DIFFUSION (CD) MODEL;

GEOPHYSICS;

FLOOD FREQUENCY; GEOPHYSICS; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

POLAND;

EID: 0038743027     PISSN: 00015725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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