Modeling the distributions of flood characteristics for a tropical River Basin

Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 419-429

  Salarpour, Mohsen ^a   Yusop, Zulkifli ^a   Yusof, Fadhilah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Flood frequency characteristic; Goodness of fit test; Johor River; Probability distribution

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOODING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK FLOW; PROBABILITY; RIVER BASIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

JOHOR; MALAYSIA; WEST MALAYSIA;

EID: 84871342786     PISSN: 19947887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jest.2012.419.429     Document Type: Article

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