A new method for identification of flood seasons using directional statistics;Une nouvelle méthode utilisant des statistiques directionnelles pour l'identification des saisons de crues

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-40

  Chen, L ^a,b,c   Singh, Vijay P ^b   Guo, Shenglian ^a   Fang, Bin ^a   Liu, Pan ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Texas A M University   (United States)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

directional statistics; flood seasonality identification; relative frequency

Indexed keywords

DESIGN FLOOD; DIRECTIONAL STATISTICS; DS METHOD; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOOD SEASON; OBSERVED DATA; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES; SEASONALITY; SYNTHETIC DATA; WATER RESOURCES SYSTEMS;

FLOOD CONTROL; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

FLOODS;

FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEASONALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

BAISHAN; CHINA; GEHEYAN RESERVOIR; HUBEI; JILIN;

EID: 84873307778     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2012.743661     Document Type: Article

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