A study on selection of probability distributions for at-site flood frequency analysis in Australia

Natural Hazards

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1803-1813

  Rahman, Ayesha S ^a   Rahman, Ataur ^a   Zaman, Mohammad A ^a   Haddad, Khaled ^a   Ahsan, Amimul ^b   Imteaz, Monzur ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian method; Flood frequency analysis; Floods; GEV distribution; LP3 distribution; Rainfalls

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FLOOD FREQUENCY; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; STREAMFLOW;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84888640498     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0775-y     Document Type: Article

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