Citation

Hardison CH. Highw. Res. Board bull. 1973; 479: 42-45.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1973, National Research Council (U.S.A.), Highway Research Board)

DOI

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Abstract

Two aspects of the unusually large floods experienced in 1972 are discussed: how such large floods affect the computation of the 50-year peak and how these floods plot on a probability distribution of extreme floods based on analysis of 157,000 annual peaks at about 200 stream gauging stations. Weight factors are given to be used in computing 50-year peaks both with the without extreme floods included.

Record URL:
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrr/1973/479/479-009.pdf

Language: en

Keywords

FLOODS; STATISTICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY