Scaling property of regional floods in New South Wales Australia

Natural Hazards

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1155-1167

  Ishak, Elias ^a   Haddad, Khaled ^a   Zaman, Mohammad ^a   Rahman, Ataur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Design floods; Floods; Regional flood frequency analysis; Scaling

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 79961023735     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9719-6     Document Type: Article

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