Scientific and practical considerations related to revising Bulletin 17B: The case for improved treatment of historical information and low outliers

Restoring Our Natural Habitat - Proceedings of the 2007 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  England Jr , John F ^a   Cohn, Timothy A ^b  

^a U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY; FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATES; HISTORICAL FLOODS; HISTORICAL INFORMATION; PRACTICAL ISSUES; SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS; SKEW ESTIMATION; TECHNICAL ASPECTS; ZERO FLOW;

ECOSYSTEMS; FLOOD CONTROL;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 80051636050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (35)

1. Bobee, B. and Rasmussen, P.F. (1995) Recent advances in flood frequency analysis. Rev. Geophys. 33(S1), pp. 1111-1116.
2. Chowdhury, J. U. and Stedinger, J.R. (1991) Confidence interval for design floods with estimated skew coefficient. J. Hydraul. Eng. 117(7), pp. 811-831.
3. Cohn, T.A., Lane, W.L., and Baier, W.G. (1997) An algorithm for computing moments-based flood quantile estimates when historical information is available. Water Resour. Res. 33(9), 2089-2096. (Pubitemid 27378357)
4. Cohn, T.A., Lane, W.L., and Stedinger, J.R. (2001) Confidence intervals for Expected Moments Algorithm flood quantile estimates. Water Resour. Res. 37(6), 1695-1706. (Pubitemid 32480667)
5. Cunnane, C. (1978) Unbiased plotting positions - a review. J. Hydrol. 37, pp. 205-222.
6. Cunnane, C. (1988) Methods and merits of regional frequency analysis. J. Hydrol. 100, pp. 269-290.
7. England, J.F. Jr. (1999) Draft User's manual for program EMA, At-Site Flood Frequency Analysis with Historical/Paleohydrologic Data. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, July, 52 p.
8. England, J.F. Jr., Salas, J.D., and Jarrett, R.D. (2003a) Comparisons of two moments-based estimators that utilize historical and paleoflood data for the log-Pearson Type III distribution. Water Resour. Res. 39(9), 1243, doi:10.1029/2002WR001791.
9. England, J.F. Jr., Jarrett, R.D., and Salas, J.D. (2003b) Data-based comparisons of moments estimators that use historical and paleoflood data. J. Hydrol. 278 (1-4), pp. 170-194.
10. Griffis, V.L., Stedinger, J.R. and Cohn, T.A. (2004) Log Pearson type 3 quantile estimators with regional skew information and low outlier adjustments. Water Resour. Res. 40, W07503, doi:10.1029/2003WR002697.
11. Griffis, V.L. and Stedinger, J.R. (2007) Evolution of Flood Frequency Analysis with Bulletin 17, J. Hydrol. Eng., in press.
12. Griffis, V.L. and Stedinger, J.R. (2005a) The LP3 distribution and its application in flood frequency analysis, 1. Distribution Characteristics, submitted J. Hydrol. Eng., July.
13. Griffis, V.L. and Stedinger, J.R. (2005b) The LP3 distribution and its application in flood frequency analysis, 2. Parameter Estimation Methods, submitted J. Hydrol. Eng., August.
14. Griffis, V.L. and Stedinger, J.R. (2005c) The LP3 distribution and its application in flood frequency analysis, 3. Sample Skew and Weighted Skew Estimators, submitted J. Hydrol. Eng., October.
15. Hirsch, R.M. (1987) Probability plotting position formulas for flood records with historical information. J. Hydrol. 96 (1-4), pp. 185-199.
16. Hirsch, R.M. and Stedinger, J.R. (1987) Plotting positions for historical floods and their precision. Water Resour. Res. 30(6), pp. 1653-1664.
17. Hydrologic Frequency Analysis Work Group (HFAWG) (2006) Flood frequency research needs and plans to investigate possible improvements to Bulletin 17B, 5 p. http://acwi.gov/acwi2006/slide.lib/Thomas-HFAWG-17B-4-ACWI06.doc
18. Interagency Committee on Water Data (IACWD) (1982) Guidelines for determining flood flow frequency: Bulletin 17-B. Hydrology Subcommittee, March 1982 (revised and corrected), 28 p. and appendices.
19. Jennings, M. E. and Benson, M.A. (1969) Frequency curves for annual flood series with some zero events or incomplete data. Water Resour. Res. 5(1), pp. 276-280.
20. Kirby, W.H. and Moss. M.E. (1987) Summary of flood-frequency analysis in the United States. J. Hydrol. 96, pp. 5-14. (Pubitemid 18564229)
21. Lane, W.L. (1987) Paleohydrologic data and flood frequency estimation. In V.P. Singh (ed.) Regional Flood Frequency Analysis, D. Reidel, pp. 287-298.
22. Lane, W.L. and Cohn, T.A. (1996) Expected moments algorithm for flood frequency analysis. In C.T. Bathala (ed.) North American Water and Environ. Congress 1996, ASCE, Anaheim, California June 22-28, 1996.
23. McCuen, R.H. (2001) Generalized flood skew: map versus watershed skew. J. Hydrol. Eng., 6(4), pp. 293-299. (Pubitemid 32621004)
24. Mileti, D. S. (1999). Disasters by design: A reassessment of natural hazards in the United States, Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C.
25. National Research Council (NRC) (1999) Improving American River Flood Frequency Analysis, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 120 p.
26. Potter (1987) Research on flood frequency analysis: 1983-1986. Rev. Geophys., 25(2), pp. 113-118.
27. Reis, D.S., Jr., Stedinger, J.R., and Martins, E.S. (2004) Operational Bayesian GLS Regression for Regional Hydrologic Analyses. In Critical Transitions in Water and Environmental Resources Management, Proceedings World Water & Environmental Resources Congress, Salt Lake City, UT, June 27 - July 1, 2004. G. Sehlke, D.F., Hayes and D. K. Stevens (eds.), ASCE, Reston, VA.
28. Reis, D.S., Jr., Stedinger, J.R., and Martins, E.S. (2005) Bayesian generalized least squares regression with application to log Pearson type 3 regional skew estimation. Water Resour. Res. 41, W10419, doi:10.1029/ 2004WR003445. (Pubitemid 41705703)
29. Spencer, C. and McCuen, R. (1996) Detection of Outliers in Pearson Type III Data. J. Hydrol. Eng. 1 (1), pp. 2-10. (Pubitemid 126582107)
30. Stedinger, J.R. (1983) Confidence intervals for design events. J. Hydraul. Eng. 109(1), pp. 13-27.
31. Stedinger, J.R. and Cohn, T.A. (1986) Flood frequency analysis with historical and paleoflood information. Water Resour. Res. 22(5), pp. 273-286.
32. Stedinger, J.R. and Tasker, G.D. (1985) Regional hydrologic analysis 1. Ordinary, weighted and generalized least squares compared. Water Resour. Res. 21(9), pp. 1421-1432. (Pubitemid 17270095)
33. Stedinger, J.R., Vogel, R.M., and Foufoula-Georgiou, E. (1993) Frequency analysis of extreme events. In Handbook of Hydrology, Maidment, D.R. (ed.), McGraw-Hill, New York, Ch. 18, pp. 18.1-18.66.
34. Thomas, Jr., W.O. (1985) A uniform technique for flood frequency analysis. J. Water Resour. Plann. Mgmt. 111(3), pp. 321-337.
35. Wang, Q.J. (1991) Unbiased plotting positions for historical flood information. J. Hydrol. 124, pp. 197-205. (Pubitemid 21684464)