Best fit and selection of theoretical flood frequency distributions based on different runoff generation mechanisms

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 239-256

  Iacobellis, Vito ^a   Fiorentino, Mauro ^b   Gioia, Andrea ^a   Manfreda, Salvatore ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frequency distributions; Likelihood; Model comparison; Runoff thresholds; Selection criteria

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; FLOOD CONTROL; RUNOFF;

APPROPRIATE TECHNIQUES; ESTIMATION OF PARAMETERS; FLOOD FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; LIKELIHOOD; MODEL COMPARISON; RUNOFF GENERATION MECHANISMS; SELECTION CRITERIA;

FLOODS;

EID: 79551617090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w2020239     Document Type: Article

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