Estimating Probabilities of Extreme Floods: Methods and Recommended Research

By National Research Council and Committee on Techniques for Estimati

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309037913
• ISBN13: 9780309037914
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Research Needs for Extreme Floods Analysis

This book focuses on the existing approaches for estimating extreme flood probabilities, assessing and identifying preferred methods for flood estimation to be further explored and to identifying research that can be expected to improve our ability to estimate flood magnitudes and its probabilities. A team of a dozen top experts (Cohon, Baker, Boes, Cornell, Crawford, Hudlow, Kirby, Newton, Potter, Wallis, and Yakowitz) has produced a very nice and compact book (141 pages) with their opinions. The developmental issues and research needs as outlined in the concluding chapter include: regionalization of floods, runoff modeling (generating runoff distributions with the runoff model via rainfall distributions and comparing it with the measured runoff), and data considerations. I found the book extremely interesting and I wished I had read it 10 years ago...