Development of a customised design flood estimation tool to estimate floods in gauged and ungauged catchments

Water SA

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-94

  Gericke, O J ^a,b   du Plessis, J A ^b  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Design flood; Design rainfall; Estimation; Flood magnitude frequency; Ungauged catchments

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; DESIGN; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; RAIN; RUNOFF;

DESIGN FLOOD; DESIGN FLOOD ESTIMATION; DESIGN RAINFALLS; ESTIMATION METHODS; ESTIMATION TOOLS; FLOOD EVENT; FLOOD MAGNITUDE-FREQUENCY; FLOOD MAGNITUDES; SOUTH AFRICA; UNGAUGED CATCHMENT;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; DESIGN; DRAINAGE NETWORK; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOODING; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE; RETURN PERIOD; SOFTWARE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84873049012     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: 18167950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/wsa.v39i1.9     Document Type: Article

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