Regional flood estimation in Australia: An overview of the study for the upgrade of 'Australian rainfall and runoff'

Proceedings of the 34th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, HWRS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1441-1448

  Rahman, Ataur ^a   Haddad, Khaled ^a   Zaman, Mohammad ^a   Kuczera, George ^b   Weinmann, Erwin ^c   Weeks, William ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Department of Transport and Main Roads ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DESIGN; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; RUNOFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES;

AUSTRALIAN RAINFALL AND RUNOFFS; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; PREDICTION EQUATIONS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; REGIONAL FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES; UNGAUGED CATCHMENT;

RAIN;

EID: 84925371576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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