Flood frequency analysis using Mathematica

Turkish Journal of Engineering and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 171-188

  Ghorbani, Mohammad Ali ^a   Ruskeepää, Heikki ^b   Singh, Vijay P ^c   Sivakumar, Bellie ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c Texas A and M University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aji river basin; Annual discharge; Flood frequency analysis; Mathematica; Probability distribution

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL DISCHARGE; APPROXIMATE METHODS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEMS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAGING STATIONS; MATHEMATICA; METHOD OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PROBABILITY PLOT; RIVER BASINS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SAMPLE DATA;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; GAGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RIVERS; TUNGSTEN; WATERSHEDS;

PROBABILITY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOW MODELING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOFTWARE;

AJI BASIN; EAST AZERBAIJAN; IRAN;

CAPSICUM BACCATUM VAR. PENDULUM;

EID: 79251633198     PISSN: 13000160     EISSN: 13036157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/muh-1002-2     Document Type: Article

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