Improved Flood Frequency Extrapolation Procedures

This research project focuses on new methods to estimate extreme floods for dam safety and hydrologic engineering. Physically-based, distributed watershed models are used as an avenue to estimate extreme floods, and as a basis to extrapolate frequency curves. The main elements of this research include improving and using a physically-based rainfall-runoff model to estimate extreme floods and probabilities for dam safety on a large watershed. The test watershed is the Arkansas River above Pueblo, Colorado.