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Application of Frequency and Risk in Water Resources :

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9400939558

(Number (ISBN

9401082545

(Number (ISBN

9789400939554

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9789401082549

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b593234

Title Proper

Application of Frequency and Risk in Water Resources :

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[Book]

Other Title Information

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Flood Frequency and Risk Analyses, 14-17 May 1986, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, U.S.A

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Vijay P. Singh.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1987

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(520 pages)

Text of Note

Section 1 Flood Characteristics --; Research Needs on Flood Characteristics --; Application of Probable Maximum Flood Estimates to the Design of Water Resource Development Projects --; Heavy Rain Storm Floods in China and their Estimation --; Section 2 Design Flood --; The Bayesian Framework for Inference in Flood Frequency Analysis --; Development of Design Procedures for Extreme Floods in Australia --; Design Flood for Canafisto Dam --; The Experiences of Design Flood of Reservoirs in Medium and Small Basins by the Method of Design Storm --; Estimation of Design Flood --; Design Flood Estimation for Narmada Sagar Project Using Partial Duration Series --; A Case Study --; Design Flood Computation with Limited Data --; Case Study of a Reservoir in Subernrekha River Basin --; Section 3 Errors and Outliers --; Confidence Intervals for Design Flood Events under Different Statistical Flood Models --; Use of Additional Historical Information for Estimation and Goodness of Fit of Flood Frequency Models --; Extrapolation Error in Flood Frequency Analysis --; Effect of Discharge Measurement Error on the Results of Flood Frequency Analysis --; Some Researches on Determination of Return Period for Historical Flood in Analysis of Flood Frequency --; Section 4 Design of Water Resources Projects --; Potential and Application of Flood Frequency Determinations --; Flood Analyses Pertaining to Design of Nuclear Power Plants --; Some Applications of Flood Frequency and Risk Information in Forest Management --; Section 5 Risk and Reliability in Water Resources Projects --; Reviews of Advances in Risk and Reliability Analysis for Hydraulic Structures --; Flood Risk Evaluation of Urban Rivers with Standard Equi-Risk Lines --; The Evaluation of Financial Risk --; Uncertainties in Flood Plain Mapping --; Project Risk Considering Sampling Uncertainties and a Finite Project Operation Period --; Optimal Planning of Flood Control Systems Based on Risk Analyses of Flood Inundation --; Application of System Reliability Analysis to Flood Forecasting --; Section 6 Flood Damage Assessment --; A Stochastic Approach to Flood Damage Estimation --; Flood Hazard Assessment on Alluvial Fans: An Examination of the Methodology --; Flood Damage --; Frequency Analysis of an Urbanizing Watershed --; Flood Risk Bias Analysed through a Multi-State Flood Insurance Model --; Section 7 Federal Practice of Frequency and Risk Analyses --; Corps of Engineers Procedures for Evaluating and Modifying Existing Dams to Safely Accommodate the Current Inflow Design Flood --; Bureau of Reclamation Use of Risk Analysis --; TVA Practice in Flood Frequency and Risk Analysis --; Nuclear Regulatory Commission Use of Flood Risk Analyses --; Flood Risk Analysis for the National Flood Insurance Program --; The National Weather Service Role in Flood Frequency and Risk Analysis --; The Role of Flood-Frequency Analysis in the U.S. Geological Survey --; Some Remarks on Practice of Flood Frequency and Risk Analysis by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission --; Author Index.

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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Flood Frequency and Risk Analyses, May 14-17, 1986, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, U.S.A.

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edited by Vijay P. Singh.

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