Nonstationarity in flood time series

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1349-1360

  Gül, Gülay Onuşluel ^a   Aşikoğlu, Ömer Levend ^b   Gül, Ali ^a   Gulcem Yasoglu F ^c   Benzeden, Ertuğrul ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Flood frequency analysis; GEV model; GEV CDN; Nonstationarity

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEV-CDN; HYDROLOGIC STUDIES; NON-STATIONARITIES; NON-STATIONARY ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; POTENTIAL SOURCES;

FLOODS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD FREQUENCY; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84929223321     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: 19435584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000923     Document Type: Article

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