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Flood type specific construction of synthetic design hydrographs
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- Brunner, Manuela I. (author)
- Univ Zurich, Dept Geog, Zurich, Switzerland.;Univ Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP, Grenoble, France.
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- Viviroli, Daniel (author)
- Univ Zurich, Dept Geog, Zurich, Switzerland.;Belop GmbH, Sarnen, Switzerland.
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- Sikorska, Anna E. (author)
- Univ Zurich, Dept Geog, Zurich, Switzerland.;Warsaw Univ Life Sci, Dept Hydraul Engn, Warsaw, Poland.
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- Vannier, Olivier (author)
- Compagnie Natl Rhone, Lyon, France.
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- Favre, Anne-Catherine (author)
- Univ Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP, Grenoble, France.
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- Seibert, Jan, 1968- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Luft-, vatten- och landskapslära,Univ Zurich, Dept Geog, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Univ Zurich, Dept Geog, Zurich, Switzerland;Univ Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP, Grenoble, France. Univ Zurich, Dept Geog, Zurich, Switzerland.;Belop GmbH, Sarnen, Switzerland. (creator_code:org_t)
- AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION, 2017
- 2017
- English.
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In: Water resources research. - : AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION. - 0043-1397 .- 1944-7973. ; 53:2, s. 1390-1406
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- Accurate estimates of flood peaks, corresponding volumes, and hydrographs are required to design safe and cost-effective hydraulic structures. In this paper, we propose a statistical approach for the estimation of the design variables peak and volume by constructing synthetic design hydrographs for different flood types such as flash-floods, short-rain floods, long-rain floods, and rain-on-snow floods. Our approach relies on the fitting of probability density functions to observed flood hydrographs of a certain flood type and accounts for the dependence between peak discharge and flood volume. It makes use of the statistical information contained in the data and retains the process information of the flood type. The method was tested based on data from 39 mesoscale catchments in Switzerland and provides catchment specific and flood type specific synthetic design hydrographs for all of these catchments. We demonstrate that flood type specific synthetic design hydrographs are meaningful in flood-risk management when combined with knowledge on the seasonality and the frequency of different flood types.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Oceanografi, hydrologi och vattenresurser (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Oceanography, Hydrology and Water Resources (hsv//eng)
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