An assessment of exceedance probabilities of envelope curves

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Vogel, Richard M ^a   Matalas, Nicholas C ^b   England, John F ^c   Castellarin, Attilio ^d  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b Bureau of Reclamation ^*  (United States)

^c U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FLOODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

FLOOD OF RECORD (FOR); PROBABLE MAXIMUM FLOOD (PMF);

CURVE FITTING;

CURVE FITTING; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FLOODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 36649033634     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005586     Document Type: Article

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