Design flood estimation using model selection criteria

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 34, Issue 10-12, 2009, Pages 606-611

  Di Baldassarre, Giuliano ^a   Laio, Francesco ^b   Montanari, Alberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Design flood; Flood frequency analysis; Model selection; Statistical extremes

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ANDERSONS; BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION; DESIGN FLOOD; DESIGN FLOOD ESTIMATION; EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY; FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MODEL SELECTION; MODEL SELECTION CRITERIA; OBSERVED DATA; PROBABILITY MODELS; RETURN PERIODS; STATISTICAL EXTREMES; SYNTHETIC DATA; THREE MODELS;

ESTIMATION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DESIGN;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DESIGN FLOOD; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PROBABILITY; RETURN PERIOD;

EID: 68249144666     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2008.10.066     Document Type: Article

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