Flood frequency analysis of Lithuanian rivers

8th International Conference on Environmental Engineering, ICEE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 666-671

  Sarauskiene, Diana ^a   Kriauciuniene, Jurate ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN ENERGY INSTITUTE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Climate change; Flood frequency; Probability distributions; Spring flood

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD CONTROL; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FLOOD FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PROBABILISTIC BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPRING FLOODS;

FLOODS;

EID: 84929430119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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