Origin of flood skew

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 771-775

  McCuen, Richard H ^a   Smith, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Floods; Rainfall; Skewness; Statistics; Water storage

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FOOD PROCESSING; LANDFORMS; MAPS; POPULATION STATISTICS; STANDARDS; TECHNOLOGY;

CHANNEL STORAGE; COASTAL PLAINS; CORRELATION CO-EFFICIENT; DELAWARE; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOODS; GREATER ACCURACY; HYDROLOGIC DATA; MODELING APPROACHES; RAINFALL; REGRESSION EQUATIONS; SKEW ESTIMATION; SKEWNESS; STATISTICS; UPPER BOUNDS; WATER STORAGE;

ESTIMATION;

FLOOD FREQUENCY; MODELING; RAINFALL; SKEWNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER STORAGE;

DELAWARE; MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50049108634     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2008)13:9(771)     Document Type: Article

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