Journal article
Flood frequency analysis of simulated flows
Water Resources Research, Vol.28(9), pp.2375-2385
09/1992
DOI: 10.1029/92WR01207
Abstract
When conventional statistical techniques are used with model‐simulated flows to estimate flood frequencies for different basin scenarios or for regulated flow conditions, the resulting estimates can appear inconsistent with the simulated flood data. In this paper we describe a new approach for flood frequency analysis of model‐simulated flows. Rather than fitting a probability distribution directly to simulated peak discharges, separate distributions are estimated for runoff volumes and for peak discharges conditioned on runoff volumes. The latter estimation is based on rainfall‐runoff modeling using historical rainfall data for the basin of interest as well as data from extreme storms that have occurred in the region. The modeling of extreme events forces consistency in the resulting flood frequency estimates. An example illustrates the proposed method.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Flood frequency analysis of simulated flows
- Creators
- A. Allen BradleyKenneth W Potter
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Water Resources Research, Vol.28(9), pp.2375-2385
- DOI
- 10.1029/92WR01207
- ISSN
- 0043-1397
- eISSN
- 1944-7973
- Number of pages
- 11
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/1992
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9983992044902771
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