Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9491490 | Journal of Hydrology | 2005 | 21 Pages |
Abstract
The curve-fitting method of flood frequency analysis, based on a plotting position formula, does not accommodate nonidentically distributed flood sequences. On the other hand, the methods of combining component-frequency distributions may overestimate the exceedance probability of a given flood quantile. This study develops a method for estimating the exceedance probability of a specified flood magnitude for nonidentically distributed flood sequences. The method is applied to several data sets, and its results are found to be in good agreement with observed values.
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Authors
V.P. Singh, S.X. Wang, L. Zhang,