Frequency analysis of nonidentically distributed hydrologic flood data

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 307, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 175-195

  Singh, V P ^a   Wang, S X ^b   Zhang, L ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bureau of Hydrology   (China)

Author keywords

Exceedance probability; Flood frequency; Flood quantile; Log Pearson type 3 distribution; Probability distribution

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGY; PROBABILITY;

DATA SETS; FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FLOOD SEQUENCES; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS;

FLOODS;

FLOOD FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 19744380590     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.10.029     Document Type: Article

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