Application of Frequency and Risk in Water Resources

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Flood Characteristics

   1. Research Needs on Flood Characteristics

      • Vujica Yevjevich, Nilgun Bayraktar Harmancioglu

      Pages 1-21

   2. Application of Probable Maximum Flood Estimates to the Design of Water Resource Development Projects

      • Bi-Huei Wang

      Pages 23-33

   3. Heavy Rain Storm Floods in China and their Estimation

      • Zhan Daojiang, Zou Jinshang

      Pages 35-44

3. Design Flood

   1. The Bayesian Framework for Inference in Flood Frequency Analysis

      • G. Kuczera

      Pages 45-61

   2. Development of Design Procedures for Extreme Floods in Australia

      • David H. Pilgrim, Ian A. Rowbottom, David G. Doran

      Pages 63-77

   3. Design Flood for Cañafisto Dam

      • F. Villegas, J. L. Cadavid

      Pages 79-90

   4. The Experiences of Design Flood of Reservoirs in Medium and Small Basins by the Method of Design Storm

      • Hua Shiqian

      Pages 91-100

   5. Estimation of Design Flood

      • Deep Kumar Gupta, B. N. Asthana, A. N. Bhargawa

      Pages 101-111

   6. Design Flood Estimation for Narmada Sagar Project Using Partial Duration Series - A Case Study

      • N. K. Goel, S. M. Seth, Satish Chandra

      Pages 113-122

   7. Design Flood Computation with Limited Data - Case Study of a Reservoir in Subernrekha River Basin

      • T. Prasad, K. Subramanya

      Pages 123-137

4. Errors and Outliers

   1. Confidence Intervals for Design Flood Events under Different Statistical Flood Models

      • Fahim Ashkar, Bernard Bobée, Louise Fortier

      Pages 139-151

   2. Use of Additional Historical Information for Estimation and Goodness of Fit of Flood Frequency Models

      • J. Bernier, J. Miquel, A. Lebosse, A. Griffet

      Pages 153-164

   3. Extrapolation Error in Flood Frequency Analysis

      • A. Qadar, M. Muzzammil

      Pages 165-174

   4. Effect of Discharge Measurement Error in the Results of Flood Frequency Analysis

      • Shuzheng Cong, Yinbo Xu

      Pages 175-190

   5. Some Researches on Determination of Return Period for Historical Flood in Analysis of Flood Frequency

      • Minggany Li, Qiusheng Yang

      Pages 191-197

5. Design of Water Resources Projects

   1. Potential and Application of Flood Frequency Determinations

      • Leo R. Beard

      Pages 199-205

   2. Flood Analyses Pertaining to Design of Nuclear Power Plants

      • Yung-Chi Chang

      Pages 207-217

   3. Some Applications of Flood Frequency and Risk Information in Forest Management

      • William F. Hansen

      Pages 219-226

6. Risk and Reliability in Water Resources Projects

   1. Review of Advances in Risk and Reliability Analysis for Hydraulic Structures

      • Larry W. Mays

      Pages 227-262

Floods constitute a persistent and serious problem throughout the United States and many other parts of the world. They are responsible for losses amounting to billions of dollars and scores of deaths annually. Virtually all parts of the nation--coastal, moun­ tainous and rural--are affected by them. Two aspects of the problem of flooding that have long been topics of scientific inquiry are flood frequency and risk analyses. Many new, even improved, tech­ niques have recently been developed for performing these analyses. Nevertheless, actual experience points out that the frequency of say a IOO-year flood, in lieu of being encountered on the average once in one hundred years, may be as little as once in 25 years. It is therefore appropriate to pause and ask where we are, where we are going and where we ought to be going with regard to the technology of flood frequency and risk analyses. One way to address these ques­ tions is to provide a forum where people from all quarters of the world can assemble, discuss and share their experience and expertise pertaining to flood frequency and risk analyses. This is what con­ stituted the motivation for organizing the International Symposium on Flood Frequency and Risk Analyses held May 14-17, 1986, at Louisiana State Universj. ty, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

• China
• Coast
• development
• earthquake prediction
• energy
• formation
• hazard
• plants
• research
• reservoir
• risk analysis
• rivers
• water
• water resources
• weather
• hydrogeology

• Department of Civil Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

  Vijay P. Singh

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