Comparison of local indices for regional frequency analysis with an application to extreme skew surges

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2940-2951

  Weiss, Jérôme ^a,b   Bernardara, Pietro ^a,b  

^a EDF R AND D   (France)

^b Universite Paris Est   (France)

Author keywords

extreme values; local index; regional frequency analysis; skew surges

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPECIFICATIONS;

ESSENTIAL FEATURES; EXTREME VALUE; LOCAL INDEX; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; QUANTILE ESTIMATORS; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; REGIONAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; SKEW SURGES;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

ASYMMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GUIDELINE; HOMOGENEITY; INDEX METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SKEWNESS;

EID: 84878208600     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20225     Document Type: Article

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