Robust national flood frequency guidelines: What is an outlier?

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2013: Showcasing the Future - Proceedings of the 2013 Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2454-2466

  Lamontagne, Jonathan R ^a   Stedinger, Jery R ^a   Cohn, Timothy A ^b   Barth, Nancy A ^b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; STATISTICS;

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; EXTREME FLOOD; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOOD QUANTILES; IDENTIFICATION PROCEDURE; LOG SPACE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; WATER DATUM;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84885111300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/9780784412947.242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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