Resource
Use of Limited Site-Specific Flood Information in Estimating Flood Peaks
Resource Type
Reports
Reference Title
Use of Limited Site-Specific Flood Information in Estimating Flood Peaks
Organization/Agency
Tennessee Valley Authority
Publisher Name
Tennessee Valley Authority
Year
1984
Date
07/1984
Abstract/Additional Information
Contents: (1) Introduction (2) Literature review (3) Hydrologic database for developing and testing procedures (4) Mapping of selected station flow-frequency statistics and flood indexes (5) Statistical analyses at historic flood information sites (6) Combining limited site-specific historic flood and regional flow-frequency estimates by variance weighting (7) Statistical analyses at short-record stations (8) Further analyses at short-record stations (9) Conclusions, recommendations, and suggested future research.
Appendices: References, Abstracts of references, Computer program FLOODREG, Example applications