Flood Frequency Analysis (New Directions in Civil Engineering)
Contributors: A. Ramachandro. Rao (Editor); Khaled Hamed (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: October 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780849300837
Subjects: Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena; Hydrology (freshwater); Water Resources Engineering; Hydraulics; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Mathematical Models; Earth Sciences - Hydrology; Engineering - Civil; General; Science / Environmental Science; Applied; Flood forecasting
First sentence: The primary objective of frequency analysis is to relate the magnitude of extreme events to their frequency of occurrence through the use of probability distributions (Chow et al., 1988).