Flood frequency confidence bounds - Art, science or guess!!

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008: Ahupua'a - Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008

Volumn 316, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Countryman, Joseph D ^a   Tustison, Ben ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood frequency; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATE METHOD; ANNUAL MAXIMUM FLOW; BEST ESTIMATES; CALIFORNIA; CONFIDENCE BOUNDS; DATA SETS; EXTREME EVENTS; FLOOD FLOW; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY CURVE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); PROBABLE MAXIMUM FLOODS; RIVER BASINS; SAMPLING ERRORS; UNDERLYING DISTRIBUTION;

ESTIMATION; FLOODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RIVERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 79251493798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40976(316)562     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. Association of State Flood Plain Managers (ASFPM) (2007) Position Paper "National Flood Policy Challenges Levees: The Doubled Edged Sword" adopted April 17, 2007, Madison, WI.
2. Countryman, Joseph (2007) "500-Year Flood- Can it be accurately estimated?" Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007: Restoring Our Natural Habitat, ASCE, Reston, VA.
3. Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data, Hydrology Subcommittee (IACWD) (1982). Guidelines for Determining Flood Flow Frequency, Bulletin #17B.
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5. USACE, (1965). Engineer Manual 1140-2-1411.
6. USACE (2001). "Office Report: American River Basin, California, Folsom Dam and Lake, Revised PMF Study", October 2001, US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, CA.