Flood regionalization: A hybrid geographic and predictor-variable region-of-influence regression method

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 585-591

  Eng, Ken ^a   Milly, P C D ^b   Tasker, Gary D ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Floods; Hybrid methods; Regional analysis; Regression analysis; Statistics; Streamflow; Surface waters

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATERS;

HYBRID REGION-OF-INFLUENCE REGRESSION METHOD; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ESTIMATION ERROR;

FLOODS;

ESTIMATION; FLOODS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATERS;

BASIN; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD FORECASTING; PEAK FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; SURFACE WATER;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36349032189     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2007)12:6(585)     Document Type: Article

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