Development of regionalized joint probability approach to flood estimation: A case study for Eastern New South Wales, Australia

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4001-4010

  Caballero, Wilfredo Llacer ^a   Rahman, Ataur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian Rainfall and Runoff; Design Event Approach; Design rainfall; Joint probability approach; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RAIN; RUNOFF; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AUSTRALIAN RAINFALL AND RUNOFFS; DESIGN EVENT APPROACHES; DESIGN RAINFALLS; JOINT PROBABILITY APPROACHES; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELLING; SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; STOCHASTIC RAINFALLS;

DESIGN;

CATCHMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOODING; HOLISTIC APPROACH; HYDROGRAPH; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PEAK FLOW; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84902682932     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9919     Document Type: Article

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