At site flood frequency analysis for the Nile Equatorial basins

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 31, Issue 15-16, 2006, Pages 919-927

  Opere, A O ^a   Mkhandi, S ^b   Willems, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Quantile quantile plots; Tail behaviour

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARETO PRINCIPLE;

CHI-SQUARE TEST; FLOOD FREQUENCY MODELS; GOODNESS OF FIT; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; NILE EQUATORIAL BASINS; QUANTILE-QUANTILE PLOTS; TAIL BEHAVIOUR;

FLOOD CONTROL;

FLOOD FREQUENCY; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; MODEL;

AFRICA; NILE BASIN;

EID: 33748884331     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2006.08.018     Document Type: Article

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