Regional flood frequency analysis using L-moments for the West Mediterranean region of Turkey

Water Resources Management

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 531-551

  Saf, Betul ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Discordancy measure; Goodness of fit measure; L moments; Regional frequency analysis; Regionalization

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOOD CONTROL; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MODEL STRUCTURES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DISCORDANCY MEASURE; GOODNESS-OF-FIT MEASURE; L-MOMENTS; REGIONAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; REGIONALIZATION;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD FREQUENCY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RAINGAUGE; RIVER BASIN;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 58549116494     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-008-9287-z     Document Type: Article

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