Flood pattern changes in the rivers of the baltic countries

Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 28-38

  Sarauskiene, Diana ^a   Kriauciuniene, Jurate ^a   Reihan, Alvina ^b   Klavins, Maris ^c  

^a LITHUANIAN ENERGY INSTITUTE   (Lithuania)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Baltic countries; environmental monitoring; maximum discharge; probability distributions.; rivers; spring floods; trends

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; RIVERS;

BALTIC COUNTRIES; BEST APPROXIMATIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION; SPRING FLOODS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TRENDS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84942875630     PISSN: 16486897     EISSN: 18224199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/16486897.2014.937438     Document Type: Article

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