Hydrological extremes in the Poyang Lake basin, China: Changing properties, causes and impacts

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 3121-3130

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Sun, Peng ^a   Chen, Xiaohong ^a   Jiang, Tao ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Extreme value analysis; Flood risk; Hydrological extremes; Poyang Lake basin; Probability distribution functions

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS RESULTS; DESIGN STANDARD; EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS; FLOOD RISK; GOODNESS OF FIT; HIGH FLOW; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYDROLOGICAL DATA; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV; MANN-KENDALL; NATURAL HAZARD; POYANG LAKE; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; TREND TESTS; WATER RESERVOIR;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; LAKES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK PERCEPTION;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

FLOOD; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; NATURAL HAZARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW;

CHINA; JIANGXI; POYANG LAKE;

EID: 80052938465     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8031     Document Type: Article

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