Regional flood estimation in new south wales australia using generalized least squares quantile regression

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 920-925

  Haddad, Khaled ^a   Rahman, Ataur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Design rainfall intensity; Flood estimation; Regional flood frequency analysis; Ungauged basins

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; FLOOD ESTIMATION; FLOOD QUANTILES; GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARE; NEW SOUTH WALES; QUANTILE REGRESSION; RAINFALL INTENSITY; REGIONAL FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; REGRESSION EQUATION; RELATIVE ERRORS; STREAM DENSITY; UNGAUGED BASINS;

ESTIMATION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOODING; FLOW VELOCITY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 83755228641     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000395     Document Type: Article

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