Linking flood frequency to long-term water balance: Incorporating effects of seasonality

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-17

  Sivapalan, M ^a,b   Bloschl G ^a   Merz, R ^a   Gutknecht, D ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND USE; MOISTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STORMS;

CATCHMENT RESPONSE TIME; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FLOOD FREQUENCY MODELS; WATER BALANCE;

FLOOD CONTROL;

CLIMATE VARIATION; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOODING; SEASONALITY; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 22444443593     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003439     Document Type: Article

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