Comprehensive evaluation of regional flood frequency analysis by L- and LH-moments. II. Development of LH-moments parameters for the generalized Pareto and generalized logistic distributions |
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| Authors: | Ali Meshgi Davar Khalili |
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| Institution: | (1) Water Engineering Department, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Fars, Iran |
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| Abstract: | As part II of a sequence of two papers, previously developed L-moments by Hosking (1990), and the LH-moments by Wang (1997) are further investigated. The LH-moments (L to L4) are used to develop the regional parameters of the generalized extreme value distribution, generalized Pareto (GPA) distribution
and the generalized logistic (GLO) distributions. These respective probability distribution functions (PDFs) are evaluated
in terms of their performances. Flood peaks by the corresponding PDFs are compared with those generated by Monte Carlo simulation
of randomized data, considering the respective LH-moments. The influence of the LH-moments on estimated PDFs are studied by
evaluating the relative bias (RBIAS) in quantile estimation due to variability of the k parameter. Karkhe watershed located in western Iran was used as a case
study area. Part I of this study identified the study area as regions A and B. The minimum calculated relative root mean square
error (RRMSE) and RBIAS between simulated flood peaks and flood peaks by the corresponding PDFs were used in PDF selection, considering the respective
LH-moments. The boxplots of the RRMSE tests identified the L3 level of the GPA distribution as the suitable PDF for sample sizes 20 and 80; for region A. Similar results were found for
the RBIAS test. As for region B, the boxplots of the RRMSE tests indicated similar results for the three PDFs. However, the boxplots of the RBIAS tests identified the L4 level of the GLO most suitable for sample sizes 20 and 80. Relative efficiencies of the LH-moments were investigated, measured
as RRMSE ratios of L-moments over the respective LH-moments. For the most parts the findings of this part of the study were similar
to those of part I. |
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| Keywords: | Frequency analysis Monte Carlo simulation LH-moments |
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