Regional flood frequency analysis of the seven sites of Punjab, Pakistan, using L-moments

Water Resources Management

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1917-1933

  Hussain, Zamir ^a   Pasha, G R ^a  

^a BAHAUDDIN ZAKARIYA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Discordancy measure; Flood frequency; L moments; Quantile estimates

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY MEASURES; DISCORDANCY MEASURE; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GROWTH CURVES; HETEROGENEITY MEASURE; KAPPA DISTRIBUTION; L-MOMENT RATIO DIAGRAMS; L-MOMENTS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PAKISTAN; QUANTILE ESTIMATES; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; REGIONAL FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; STUDY AREAS;

FLOOD CONTROL; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

FLOODS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOODING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH CURVE; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN]; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 67650381958     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-008-9360-7     Document Type: Article

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