Probabilistic approach to estimating the effects of channel reaches on flood frequencies

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Guo, Yiping ^a   Hansen, David ^b   Li, Chuan ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c AECOM   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED SLOPE; CHANNEL ROUTING; CONTINUOUS SIMULATION; DELAY TIME; DESIGN VARIABLES; DOWNSTREAM IMPACTS; FLOOD EVENT; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOOD ROUTING; FLOW DATA; FLOW FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HALIFAX; MOMENTUM EQUATION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PHYSICALLY BASED; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; RAINFALL DATA; SECTION SIZE; STORMWATER MANAGEMENTS; WATERSHED PLANNING;

CATCHMENTS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FLOODS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; LANDFORMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLANNING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RIVER CONTROL; RUNOFF; SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL; STORM SEWERS; WATERSHEDS;

ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; BED ROUGHNESS; CATCHMENT; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOOD ROUTING; FLOW MODELING; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER MANAGEMENT; STORMWATER; WATER PLANNING; WATERSHED;

EID: 70349762649     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007387     Document Type: Article

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