On seasonal and semi-annual approach for flood frequency analysis |
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| Authors: | Wen?Ye Email author" target="_blank">Cheng?WangEmail author Xinyi?Xu Hongrui?Wang |
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| Institution: | 1.College of Water Sciences,Beijing Normal University,Beijing,China;2.Environmental Science Division,Argonne National Laboratory,Lemont,USA |
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| Abstract: | As a supplementary method to the conventional flood frequency analysis based on annual peak flows, we propose an approach in this paper to infer the flood frequency distribution on quarterly and semi-annual time scale, which are then converted to annual time scale to obtain the floods corresponding to return periods in unit of year. Two criteria for test of data independence, namely, minimum 7 and 15-day interval between two consecutive peak flows, are tested. The proposed approach was applied to Des Moines River at Fort Dodge, Iowa, USA using its 62 years of observation daily flows. The results show that the estimated floods for given return periods from quarter-annual data series are in general higher than the corresponding estimated floods from semi-annual data series, which is further larger than estimated floods from annual peak flows. The floods estimated from semi-annual data series agree well with the results of previous US Geological Survey study. |
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