Journal article
FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS FOR EVALUATING WATERSHED CONDITIONS WITh RAINFALL‐RUNOFF MODELS1
Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Vol.27(1), pp.83-91
02/1991
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1991.tb03115.x
Abstract
Many rainfall‐runoff modeling studies compare flood quantiles for different land‐use and/or flood mitigation scenarios. However, when flood quantiles are estimated using conventional statistical methods, comparisons may be misleading because the estimates often misrepresent the quantile relationship between scenarios. An alternate statistical procedure is proposed, in which rainfall‐runoff modeling is used to evaluate an approximate relationship between flood quantiles for different scenarios. Monte Carlo experiments show that the proposed method produces flood quantile estimates that better reflect the differences between scenarios. The ratio between quantiles for different scenarios is more accurate, so comparisons of the scenarios using flood quantiles are more reliable.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS FOR EVALUATING WATERSHED CONDITIONS WITh RAINFALL‐RUNOFF MODELS1
- Creators
- A. Allen BradleyKenneth W Potter
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Vol.27(1), pp.83-91
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Oxford, UK
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1991.tb03115.x
- ISSN
- 1093-474X
- eISSN
- 1752-1688
- Number of pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/1991
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9983991984802771
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