On the tails of distributions of annual peak flow

Hydrology Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 171-192

  Strupczewski, Witold G ^a   Kochanek, Krzysztof ^a   Markiewicz, Iwona ^a   Bogdanowicz, Ewa ^b   Weglarczyk, Stanislaw ^c   Singh, Vijay P ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND WATER MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^c CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d Texas A M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Heavy tail; Hydrological extremes; L moments; Parameters' estimation of probability distribution quantiles

Indexed keywords

BIAS; HEAVY TAIL; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; L-MOMENTS; PARAMETERS' ESTIMATION OF PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION QUANTILES;

ESTIMATION; FLOODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM VARIABLES;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

DATA SET; DIAGRAM; FLOOD FREQUENCY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PEAK FLOW; SAMPLING BIAS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VELOCITY PROFILE;

POLAND;

EID: 79955748791     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2011.062     Document Type: Article

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