One hundred years of return period: Strengths and limitations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 8570-8585

  Volpi, E ^a   Fiori, A ^a   Grimaldi, S ^b,c   Lombardo, F ^a   Koutsoyiannis, D ^d  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

extremes; probability of failure; return period; stationarity; time dependence

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; HYDROLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PROBABILITY; RISK PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EXTREMES; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; RETURN PERIODS; STATIONARITY; TIME DEPENDENCE;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

DESIGN; EXTREME EVENT; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PROBABILITY; RETURN PERIOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84956845000     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017820     Document Type: Article

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