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Hydrologic Frequency Modeling

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Flood Frequency and Risk Analyses, 14–17 May 1986, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, U.S.A.

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Vijay P. Singh

    1. Department of Civil Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

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Table of contents (44 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  3. Empirical Flood Frequency Models

    1. Review of Statistical Models for Flood Frequency Estimation

      • Conleth Cunnane
      Pages 49-95

    2. Estimation of Flood Frequencies by a Nonparametric Density Procedure

      • Kaz Adamowski, Charles Labatiuk
      Pages 97-106

    3. Statistical Models for Flood Frequency Estimation of the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers

      • Edward Nissan
      Pages 107-115

    4. Partial Duration Series with Log-Normal Distrubuted Peak Values

      • Dan Rosbjerg
      Pages 117-129

    5. Estimation of a Prior Distribution for the Bayesian Estimation of Pearson III Skews

      • Upmanu Lall
      Pages 131-147

    6. Comparison of Flood-Frequency Estimates Based on Observed and Model-Generated Peak Flows

      • Wilbert O. Thomas Jr.
      Pages 149-161

    7. Flood Frequency Analysis Using Box-Cox Transformation Based Gumbel EV-I Distribution

      • M. Perumal, R. D. Singh, S. M. Seth
      Pages 163-172

    8. Flood-Frequency Analysis with Historical Data in China

      • Vernon B. Sauer
      Pages 173-182

  5. Rainfall Frequency Analysis

    1. Very Low Probability Precipitation-Frequency Estimates — A Perspective

      • Frank Richards, Rex G. Wescott
      Pages 243-252

    2. SQRT-Exponential Type Distribution of Maximum

      • Takeharu Etoh, Akira Murota, Masanori Nakanishi
      Pages 253-264

    3. On the Probabilistic Characteristics of Point and Areal Rainfall

      • U. Matsubayashi, F. Takagi
      Pages 265-275

    4. Comparison of Three Methods of Estimating Rainfall Frequency Parameters According to the Duration of Accumulation

      • M. Slimani, T. Lebel
      Pages 277-291
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Floods constitute a persistent and serious problem throughout the United States and many other parts of the world. They are respon­ sible for losses amounting to billions of dollars and scores of deaths annually. Virtually all parts of the nation--coastal, mountainous 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, techniques have recently been developed for performing these analyses. Nevertheless, actual experience points out that the frequency of say a 100-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 questions 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 constituted the motivation for organizing the International Symposium on Flood Frequency and Risk Analyses held May 14-17, 1986, at Louisiana State University, Bat-on Rouge, Louisiana.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Vijay P. Singh

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hydrologic Frequency Modeling

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Flood Frequency and Risk Analyses, 14–17 May 1986, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, U.S.A.

  • Editors: Vijay P. Singh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3953-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2572-1Published: 30 September 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8253-2Published: 28 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3953-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 645

  • Topics: Hydrogeology

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