Consequences to flood management of using different probability distributions to estimate extreme rainfall

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 115, Issue , 2013, Pages 98-105

  Esteves, Luciana S ^a,b  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extreme rainfall; Flood defence; Probability distribution; Return period; Risk management

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

DATA SET; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD CONTROL; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; RETURN PERIOD; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANDERSONE DARLING TEST; ARTICLE; FLOODING; GENERALISED EXTREME VALUE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; GENERALISED PARETO PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; KOLMOGOROVE SMIRNOV TEST; PRECIPITATION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; UNITED KINGDOM;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84870833324     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.11.013     Document Type: Article

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