Effects of multiscale rainfall variability on flood frequency: Comparative multisite analysis of dominant runoff processes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Samuel, Jos M ^a   Sivapalan, Murugesu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; FLOOD CONTROL; MODAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SOUND RECORDING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL MAXIMUMS; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; CLIMATIC CONTROLS; CLIMATIC VARIABILITIES; COMPARATIVE MODELING; DEEP SOILS; DOMINANT RUNOFF PROCESSES; EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITIES; FLOOD FREQUENCIES; FLOOD FREQUENCY CURVES; FLOOD MODELS; FLOOD PEAKS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; INTERDECADAL; MULTI SITES; MULTISCALE; OVERLAND FLOWS; RAINFALL MODELS; RAINFALL VARIABILITIES; RELATIVE STRENGTHS; RETURN PERIODS; RUNOFF GENERATIONS; SATURATION EXCESSES; SEASONALITY; SUBSURFACE STORMFLOW; TIME SERIES;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SLOPE; WATER FLOW;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; NEW SOUTH WALES; NEWCASTLE [NEW SOUTH WALES]; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PERTH [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 55249105007     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR006928     Document Type: Article

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