Assessment of the effects of discordant sites on regional flood frequency analysis

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 380, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 362-375

  Saf, Betül ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

FLOOD ESTIMATION; FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION; GOODNESS-OF-FIT MEASURE; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; HYDROLOGICAL DATA; KAPPA DISTRIBUTION; L-MOMENTS; MOMENT METHODS; PROBABILITY MODELS; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; REGIONAL FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; REGIONAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; RIVER BASINS; ROBUST DETECTION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SITE IDENTIFICATION; SUB-REGIONS;

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; REGIONAL PLANNING; SIMULATORS; WATER RESOURCES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DATA SET; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOODING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONALIZATION; WATER RESOURCE;

MENDERES BASIN; TURKEY;

EID: 72249105954     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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