Quantifying the uncertainty of design floods under nonstationary conditions

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1438-1446

  Obeysekera, Jayantha ^a   Salas, Jose D ^b  

^a SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Design floods; Generalized extreme value distribution; Nonstationarity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DESIGN FLOOD; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION; NON-STATIONARITIES; NON-STATIONARY CONDITION; NONSTATIONARY PARAMETERS; PROFILE LIKELIHOOD;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DESIGN FLOOD; FLOOD FREQUENCY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921899094     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: 19435584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000931     Document Type: Article

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