Flood frequency estimation, uncertainties and application
Robust estimation methods with application to flood statistics
... in decreasing order. If n, d → ∞, the ratio m/n remains constant (m being approximately the median of the sample) and n/d → 1, Gumbel and Schelling (1950) have shown that this distribution converges asymptotically to a ...
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Documentary evidence of past floods in Europe and their utility in flood frequency estimation
... historical flood events in contemporary flood frequency estimation in European ...practical application has been limited. A detailed review of flood frequency ...
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Proxy surrogate reconstructions for Europe and the estimation of their uncertainties
... The analogue method is generally found to perform well, e.g., for area-averaged indices and also at the locations of the used predictors (compare, e.g., Franke et al., 2010). However, reducing the number of predictors ...
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A spectral unmixing method with ensemble estimation of endmembers : application to flood mapping in the Caprivi floodplain
... ]. Flood plains are often densely populated and most vulnerable to flood ...events. Flood monitoring in such areas is consequently required to mitigate the effects of flood disasters and to ...
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Potential of Twitter derived flood maps: comparing interpolation methods and assesing uncertainties
... the flood were used, whereas the maps were validated using the maximum flood ...real-time application (also see ...the flood extents calculated in this research are probably more reliable than ...
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A comparison of flood extent modelling approaches through constraining uncertainties on gauge data
... The three elevation models aggregated from the original laser altimetry data were run with the sbk model to evaluate the quality of the aggregated elevation data. Figure 5(a) shows selected quantiles for predicted ...
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Uncertainties of soil parameterisation in process-based simulation of distributed flood control measures
... the application of different pedo- transfer functions (PTF) to estimate soil hydraulic proper- ties (Grundmann, ...Furthermore, flood peaks are af- fected by soil parameterisation, if changed soil physics ...
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The estimation of flood frequency curves by mapping from rainfall frequency curves
... the Flood Estimation Handbook methods for flood frequency estimation in the UK; however the format of the data is such that it can be easily used for other ...more flood data ...
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Improving the FEH statistical procedures for flood frequency estimation
... standardised flood distribution for all catchments in the ...distributed flood-values for the catchments before these are combined, via weighted averages, into estimates of the 3rd and 4th L- moment ratios ...
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ESTIMATION OF DESIGN FLOOD WITH FOUR FREQUENCY ANALYSIS DISTRIBUTIONS
... design flood. This study intends to analyze the design flood by using the four frequency analysis ...the flood frequency by using the distributions of Normal, Log Normal, Log Pearson ...
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Making better use of local data in flood frequency estimation
... archives should not be included in these large-scale and other floodplain developments where property and lives are at risk. The reluctance of the UK civil engineering and hydrology academics, practitioners, and water ...
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Calibration of a conceptual rainfall runoff model for flood frequency estimation by continuous simulation
... Flow duration curves for the Tanllwyth catchment showing the results obtained using manually adjusted param- eters and results using the best five simulations from each of the two [r] ...
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Radar rainfall estimation for the post event analysis of a Slovenian flash flood case: application of the Mountain Reference Technique at C band frequency
... Abstract. This article is dedicated to radar rainfall estima- tion for the post-event analysis of a flash flood that occurred on 18 September 2007 in Slovenia. The utility of the Moun- tain Reference Technique is ...
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Radar rainfall estimation for the post-event analysis of a Slovenian flash-flood case: application of the Mountain Reference Technique at C-band frequency
... Abstract. This article is dedicated to radar rainfall estima- tion for the post-event analysis of a flash flood that occurred on 18 September 2007 in Slovenia. The utility of the Moun- tain Reference Technique is ...
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Multitaper Estimation of Frequency-Warped Cepstra With Application to Speaker Verification
... Abstract—Usually the mel-frequency cepstral coefficients are estimated either from a periodogram or from a windowed periodogram. We state a general estimator which also includes multitaper estimators. We propose ...
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Estimation of Direct and Indirect Economic Losses Caused by a Flood With Long‐Lasting Inundation: Application to the 2011 Thailand Flood
... where N office is the number of offices, and EB house and EB office are the alternative activity expenditure burden unit prices in the household and office sectors, respectively. EB house and EB office are a function as ...
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Characterising urban catchments for explaining storm runoff and application in UK flood estimation
... sustainable flood management in urban areas (Defra, ...frequently flood, a solution often outlined in literature on urban flood management to attenuate peak flows (Wilby, 2007, Hamel et ...for ...
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Use of flood seasonality in pooling-group formation and quantile estimation: an application in Great Britain
... flood frequency analysis is one of the most commonly applied methods for estimating extreme flood events at ungauged sites or locations with short measurement ...current Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH) ...
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Indexing floodplain effects for flood estimation
... in flood frequency ...generating flood hydrographs with varying flood peaks and durations and routing these through a generalised two-stage river reach using the HEC- RAS flood routing ...
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ESTIMATION OF INDEX FLOOD IN HYDROLOGIC REGIONS WITH LIMITED FLOOD DATA AVAILABILITY
... regional frequency distribution and estimation of index flood are three major steps of regional flood frequency ...the estimation of index flood relationship in each of ...
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