Quantifying effects of catchments storage thresholds on step changes in the flood frequency curve

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6946-6958

  Rogger, Magdalena ^a   Viglione, Alberto ^a   Derx, Julia ^a   Blöschl, Günter ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

flood estimation; flood frequency curve; step change; storage threshold

Indexed keywords

FLOOD ESTIMATION; FLOOD FREQUENCY CURVE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SECOND DERIVATIVES; STEP CHANGES; STOCHASTIC RAINFALLS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; VARIABLY SATURATED;

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; RAIN; RUNOFF; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CATCHMENTS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CATCHMENT; FLOOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MAGNITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SATURATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THRESHOLD;

EID: 84886212026     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20553     Document Type: Article

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