Reliability, return periods, and risk under nonstationarity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 6381-6398

  Read, Laura K ^a   Vogel, Richard M ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

floods; hydrologic design; nonstationarity; planning; reliability; trends

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; PLANNING; WATER RESOURCES;

EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; HYDROLOGIC DESIGN; NON-STATIONARITIES; PROBABILISTIC BEHAVIOR; PROBABILITY OF EXCEEDANCE; STATIONARY CONDITIONS; TRENDS; UNDERLYING DISTRIBUTION;

RELIABILITY;

DESIGN METHOD; FLOODING; LITERATURE REVIEW; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84941994768     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017089     Document Type: Article

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