Flood frequency analysis based on simulated peak discharges

Natural Hazards

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 403-417

  Saghafian, Bahram ^a   Golian, Saeed ^b   Ghasemi, Alireza ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Flood frequency analysis; Hydrological modeling; Monte Carlo; Rainfall spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893967731     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0925-2     Document Type: Article

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