Preliminary analysis of trends in Australian flood data

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010: Challenges of Change - Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 115-124

  Ishak, E H ^a   Rahman, A ^a   Westra, S ^b   Sharma, A ^b   Kuczera, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Floods; Hydrologic data

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN RAINFALL; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DATA SETS; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; DESIGN FLOOD; DESIGN FLOOD ESTIMATION; FINAL OBJECTIVE; HYDROLOGIC DATA; HYDROLOGIC REGIME; HYDROLOGIC TIME SERIES; HYDROLOGICAL DATA; MANN-KENDALL TEST; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; QUASI-PERIODIC; RAINFALL-RUNOFF PROCESS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPEARMAN'S RHO; TIME TRENDS; TREND ANALYSIS; TREND TESTS; UPWARD TREND; WATER INFRASTRUCTURE;

DESIGN; FLOODS; RAIN; RUNOFF; STATISTICAL TESTS; TIME SERIES; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 77954997230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41114(371)14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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