Process controls on regional flood frequency: Coefficient of variation and basin scale

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2967-2980

  Blöschl, Günter ^a   Sivapalan, Murugesu ^a,b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PROCESS CONTROL;

BASIN; CATCHMENT STUDY; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; FLOOD FREQUENCY; PROCESS CONTROL;

CATCHMENTS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; RUNOFF; TRAVEL TIME;

CATCHMENT RESPONSE TIME; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; FLOOD FREQUENCY MODELS; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; HYDROLOGIC REGIME; RAINFALL INTENSITY; REGIONAL FLOOD FREQUENCIES; REGIONAL FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 1842327458     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR00568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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