Regional flood frequency analysis by combining self-organizing feature map and fuzzy clustering

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 348, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 148-166

  Srinivas, V V ^b   Tripathi, Shivam ^a,b   Rao, A Ramachandra ^a   Govindaraju, Rao S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Cluster validation measures; Flood frequency analysis; L moments; Regionalization; Self organizing maps

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; WATERSHEDS;

CLUSTER VALIDATION MEASURES; FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; REGIONALIZATION;

FLOODS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOODS; FUZZY SETS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; WATERSHEDS;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; REGIONALIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED;

INDIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41649090758     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.09.046     Document Type: Article

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