Regional Flood Frequency Analysis: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Flood Frequency and Risk Analyses, 14-17 May 1986, Louisiana State Un

ISBN-13: 9789401082563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str.

V. P. Singh; Vijay Singh

Opis

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 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 there fore 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, Baton Rouge, Louisiana."

Spis treści

Section 1 Regional Frequency Analysis.- Regional Analysis of Flood Frequencies.- Regional Flood Discharge Analysis — Southwest Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.- Regional Flood Frequency Analysis for Some Selected Basins in Saudi Arabia.- Hierarchical Approach for Regional Flood Frequency Analysis.- Application of Regional Flood Frequency Analysis to Philippine Rivers.- Section 2 Regional Frequency for Ungaged Watersheds.- Improving Flood Quantile Estimation on Ungaged Watersheds.- A Regional Peak Flow Study in Southern British Columbia, Canada.- Regional Treatment of Flood Data.- Statistical Analysis of Floods and Regional Relations.- Combined Regional Flood Frequency Analysis and Regression on Catchment Characteristics by Maximum Likelihood Estimation.- Section 3 More on Regional Frequency.- Multivariate Techniques for the Identification of Homogeneous Flood Frequency Regions.- A Significance Test for Homogeneity of Flood Frequency Regions.- Testing the Suitability of the Two- Component Extreme Value Distribution for Regional Flood Estimation.- A Method of Estimating the Peak Discharge through the Records of Mean Daily Discharge.- Observation and Analysis of Flood Discharges — Experiences from Switzerland.- Estimating the Regulatory Flood on a Degrading River.- Section 4 Comparison of Regional Frequency Methods.- Comparison of Regional Flood Frequency Methods in Southern Ontario Using Analysis of Variance Techniques.- Comparison of Flood Frequency Curves for Many Different Regions of the World.- On the Two-Component Extreme Value Distribution and its Point and Regional Estimators.- Section 5 Paleohydrologic Flood Analysis.- Historical Flood Frequency Data: Its Value and Use.- Paleohydrologic Data and Flood Frequency Estimation.- The 100-Year Flood.- Changes in Hydrologic Conditions Related to Large Floods on the Escalante River, South-central Utah.- Paleoflood Hydrologic Analysis at Ungaged Sites, Central and Northern Australia.- Paleoflood Hydrology and Design Applications.- Botanical Evidence of Floods and Paleoflood History.- Implications of Flume Experiments for the Interpretation of Slackwater Paleoflood Sediments.- Author Index.