FEH Local: Improving flood estimates using historical data

The traditional approach to design flood estimation (for example, to derive the 100-year flood) is to apply a statistical model to time series of peak river flow measured by gauging stations. Such records are typically not very long, for example in the UK only about 10% of the stations have records...

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Main Authors: Prosdocimi Ilaria, Stewart Lisa, Faulkner Duncan, Mitchell Chrissy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2016-01-01
Series:E3S Web of Conferences
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160701006