Usefulness of historical information for flood frequency analyses: Developments based on a case study

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Payrastre, O ^a   Gaume, E ^a   Andrieu, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDED VALUES; DATA SETS; FLOOD DISCHARGE; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL DATA; HISTORICAL FLOODS; HISTORICAL INFORMATION; HISTORICAL PERIODS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; MONTE CARLO MARKOV CHAIN; PEAK DISCHARGE; PERCEPTION THRESHOLDS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

CATCHMENTS; FLOOD CONTROL; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FLOODS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CATCHMENT; DATA SET; DISCHARGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL RECORD; MARKOV CHAIN; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD;

FRANCE;

EID: 84860417484     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009812     Document Type: Article

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