Analysis of extreme food events for the pachang river, Taiwan

Water Resources Management

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 363-374

  Nadarajah, S ^a   Shiau, J T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Generalized extreme value distribution; Gumbel distribution; Partial duration series

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RIVERS;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; FLOOD DURATION; FLOOD PEAK; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION; GUMBEL DISTRIBUTION; MEAN INTER-ARRIVAL TIME; PACHANG RIVER; PARTIAL DURATION SERIES METHOD; TAIWAN;

FLOOD DAMAGE;

EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PEAK FLOW;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN; WORLD;

EID: 26844560073     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-005-2073-2     Document Type: Article

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