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Using regional regression within index flood procedures and an empirical Bayesian estimator |
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| Authors: | Heinz D Fill Jery R Stedinger |
| Institution: | a Centro de Hidraulica e Hidrologia Prof. Parigot de Souza (CEHPAR), Universidade Federal do Parana, caixa postal 1309, 80001-970 Curitiba PR, Brazil b School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hollister Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-3501, USA |
| Abstract: | Studies have illustrated the performance of at-site and regional flood quantile estimators. For realistic generalized extreme value (GEV) distributions and short records, a simple index-flood quantile estimator performs better than two-parameter (2P) GEV quantile estimators with probability weighted moment (PWM) estimation using a regional shape parameter and at-site mean and L-coefficient of variation (L-CV), and full three-parameter at-site GEV/PWM quantile estimators. However, as regional heterogeneity or record lengths increase, the 2P-estimator quickly dominates. This paper generalizes the index flood procedure by employing regression with physiographic information to refine a normalized T-year flood estimator. A linear empirical Bayes estimator uses the normalized quantile regression estimator to define a prior distribution which is employed with the normalized 2P-quantile estimator. Monte Carlo simulations indicate that this empirical Bayes estimator does essentially as well as or better than the simpler normalized quantile regression estimator at sites with short records, and performs as well as or better than the 2P-estimator at sites with longer records or smaller L-CV. |
| Keywords: | Flood frequency Index flood Regionalization Empirical Bayesian estimation |
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